AHA/ASA Journals

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Appropriate Patient Selection and Triage: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Cardiac intensive care units are specialized, high-acuity, and resource-intensive environments for the care of critically ill ...
Health Affairs

Surviving The Surge: Nonurgent Elective Procedures, Intensive Care, And Mississippi’s COVID-19 Waves

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississippi in 2020 and 2021, nonurgent elective procedures requiring hospitalization were halted three times to preserve the state’s hospital resources. To evaluate ...
HealthLeaders Media

How Intermountain Reduced NICU Infections, Pain, Blood Loss

Any invasive procedure in neonatal intensive care units puts tiny patients at risk of harm. A Utah-based hospital has dramatically reduced the number of invasive procedures endured by patients in the ...
WebMD

What to Know About Your Child's Stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Respiratory and heart problems are the top reasons children are admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the U.S. (Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime) What is the PICU? The ...
Healthline

What’s the Difference Between a CCU and an ICU?

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 ...
LancasterOnline

Neonatal intensive care unit at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center to open in October

Parents whose babies are born at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center and need a level II neonatal intensive care unit will soon no longer have to travel to Hershey. Construction is now underway ...