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For most people at the end of their lives, it's a comfort to know that their lives touched others and that some part of them will live on within the ones they love.
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Faith Hospice of Irving, TX, has employed a variety of services from complementary therapies to life-enhancing programs for the benefit of patients and their families.
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The hazards of glutaraldehyde are receiving renewed attention, as California tightens its regulation and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues new guidance.
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The Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, AZ, follows the assumption that hospices are an ideal environment for patients with dementia, ...
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With mumps continuing to spread in at least 11 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that all hospitals review the immune status of health care workers.
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Corticosteroids have been studied in various phases in the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is characterized by an inflammatory injury to the lung resulting in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Four trials of steroids in early ARDS failed to show any improvement.
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Artinian and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis on a large prospectively acquired database from ICUs across the United States to examine the effect of initiating early enteral feeding on outcomes in non-surgical, mechanically ventilated ICU patients.
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Mueller and colleagues at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, investigated the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of immediately measuring the serum level of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnea.
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One in 5 Americans dies in or shortly after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU), an outcome that exposes critical care clinicians to frequent discussions that concern end-of-life care.
