NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When hospitals are short on beds in the intensive care unit, doctors are more likely to switch from life-saving care to end-of-life care, a new Canadian study shows. But it ...

Even when family members consider themselves religious, goals-of-care conferences only included mentions of spirituality 16.1% of the time in a multicenter, qualitative study. Healthcare professionals ...

Critically ill patients who need breathing machines often miss getting enough nutrition, especially during the first few days in intensive care. Now, a new study suggests artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Documenting goals of care (GOC) and prognosis of patients with advanced cancer: A tertiary cancer centre review of internal and external correspondence. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ...

Some people have heard of the ICU but don’t fully understand what goes on in an intensive care unit. Read on to learn more about these specialty hospital wards that help treat severe cases and provide ...

Different hospitals may use these specialized units for cardiac or critical care, which may be similar to an intensive care unit (ICU). Once you don’t need 24-hour critical or cardiac care, you will ...

When hospitals are short on beds in the intensive care unit doctors are more likely to switch from live-saving care to end-of-life care, according to a new Canadian study that looked at more than 3000 ...

An AI tool NutriSightT analyzes routine ICU data to flag underfed patients in real time, enabling more personalized nutrition ...