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    Hospital workers move a patient into the prone (face down) position, which can help increase the lung capacity of some COVID-19 patients. The medical team was photographed Nov. 19 at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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    'It's So Much Worse Than Before.' Dread And Despair Haunt Nurses Inside LA's ICUs

    Dec 24, 2020
    As hospitals struggle with the patient surge in Los Angeles County, their ICU nurses are overwhelmed by the physical demands and emotional toll of caring for the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
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    Physical and occupational therapists carry bags of personal protective equipment on their way to the room of a COVID-19 patient in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit in Stamford, Conn., on April 24. This "prone team" turns over COVID-19 to help them
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    Hospital ICUs Are Adapting To COVID-19 At 'Light Speed'

    May 05, 2020
    With COVID-19 becoming a critical focus in hospital intensive care units, nurses, doctors and other caregivers have had to shift gears to protect staff and save patients.
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    ICU capabilities vary not only from hospital to hospital, but also from region to region. Some parts of the country have far more critical care beds by population than others.
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    ICU Bed Capacity Varies Widely Nationwide. See How Your Area Stacks Up

    Mar 25, 2020
    An NPR analysis of the nation's 100,000 ICU beds finds some communities can accommodate far more critically ill patients than others, signaling potential disparities in care in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Babies of moms who are in the ICU with severe flu have a greater chance of being born premature and underweight.
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    Severe Flu Raises Risk Of Birth Problems For Pregnant Women, Babies

    Jan 10, 2019
    Pregnant women in intensive care with severe cases of the flu have a higher risk of giving birth to babies prematurely. The risk of breathing problems for the baby is also substantially higher.
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    Dr. E. Wesley Ely at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, has developed a checklist of procedures in the ICU that reduces long-term mental deficits by easing sedation, getting patients up and around earlier and helping them stay oriented to
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    How To Prevent Brain-Sapping Delirium In The ICU

    Oct 10, 2018
    People who suffer from prolonged delirium in the hospital are likely to develop long-term mental problems like dementia. Doctors have come up with techniques they say can reduce delirium in the ICU.
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    Jill Brothers, with baby Duke, one of her twins born at 27 weeks. She visited them every day during their NICU stay, and watched them online from home.
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    Cameras On Preemies Let In Families, Keep Germs Out

    May 28, 2018
    Some hospitals are putting cameras in their neonatal intensive care units to reduce the number of people — and germs — from entering. But some NICU staff may not want to be watched around the clock.
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    Should doctors choose lactated Ringer's solution (right) or normal saline?
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    Why Did Sterile Salt Water Become The IV Fluid Of Choice?

    Mar 31, 2018
    IV bags filled with what's called normal saline are used to treat problems ranging from vomiting to lightheadedness. But evidence for the use of saline over other intravenous options is scant.
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    Dr. David Carlbom, a critical care pulmonologist at UW Medicine's Harborview Medical Center, says sepsis has long frustrated clinicians. "There's no blood test," he says. "There's nothing you can look at under the microscope and say 'this is sepsis.' "
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    Synergy Between Nurses And Automation Could Be Key To Finding Sepsis Early

    Feb 22, 2018

    A bedside computer loaded with software that tracks vital signs in the ICU can pick up early warning patterns, specialists say. But it takes a human care provider to sort the signal from the noise.

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    Dr. David Carlbom, a critical care pulmonologist at the University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, has used the anti-sepsis treatment Kelly got on 25 other patients so far. Sometimes he's seen what looks like a really rapid response
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    Did An IV Cocktail Of Vitamins And Drugs Save This Lumberjack From Sepsis?

    Feb 21, 2018
    A 51-year-old man nearly died from septic shock, when a crushing injury led to overwhelming infection. After getting an experimental treatment, he's recovering well, but some doctors want more proof.
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    Two-year-old Robbie Klein has hemophilia, a medical condition that interferes with his blood's ability to clot normally. Without insurance, the daily medications he needs to stay healthy could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more each year.
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    In Massachusetts, Proposed Medicaid Cuts Put Kids' Health Care At Risk

    Jul 17, 2017
    Doctors, consumers and politicians say big federal cuts to Medicaid funding would jeopardize the treatment a lot of kids rely on. The state would either have to make up lost funding or cut benefits.
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    As baby boomers age, more older Americans are visiting the emergency room, which can be an overcrowded, disorienting and even traumatic place.
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    Can Comfort Care At The ER Help Older People Live Longer And Suffer Less?

    May 26, 2017
    Many older patients have problems that an emergency room is ill-equipped to handle, but often there is nowhere else to go. So some hospitals are adding palliative care consultants to the front lines.
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    Shots - Health News
    Of the million or so Americans a year who get sepsis, roughly 300,000 die. Unfortunately, many treatments for the condition have looked promising in small, preliminary studies, only to fail in follow-up research.
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    Doctor Turns Up Possible Treatment For Deadly Sepsis

    Mar 22, 2017
    Research hasn't yet confirmed the early hints that a mix of IV vitamins and steroids might stop the fatal organ failure of sepsis. But an effective treatment for sepsis would be a really big deal.
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    When Dr. William Benitz first came to Packard Children's neonatal intensive care unit in 1973, doctors relied on their own judgment in deciding how aggressively to treat a newborn's severe illness, he says. Often they didn't even notify parents until the
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    In Caring For Sickest Babies, Doctors Now Tap Parents For Tough Calls

    Nov 16, 2015
    Doctors were once unquestioned authorities on how aggressively to treat the sickest and most premature babies. Then parents started pushing back for more say. The responsibility can be excruciating.
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    Anne Shamiyeh at home with 3-year-old Malia. Twins Kai and Malia arrived roughly two months early. Each weighed around 3 pounds at birth, but Malia was able to go home after about five weeks in the NICU.
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    An Ill Newborn, A Loving Family And A Litany Of Wrenching Choices

    Nov 13, 2015
    As families consider how far to push an infant's medical care, a chasm can open between the parents' hopes and what doctors and nurses consider realistic. How do you measure a baby's quality of life?
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