A newly-developed nomogram prediction model identifies delirium risk among ICU patients using 7 readily available clinical variables.

Delirium affects 10-30% of hospitalized patients and up to 80% of ICU patients. Triggered by trauma, unfamiliar environments, and medications, it can lead to aggression, prolonged hospital stays, ...

Patients who develop delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) show a significantly lower survival probability up to 4 years post-discharge than those without delirium, according to a new study.

As if staying in an intensive care unit isn’t traumatizing enough, a large proportion of people treated in ICUs develop delirium. Hallucinations make their hospital stay more traumatizing, and can ...

Pediatric admissions declined over the past two decades, but a greater proportion of these hospitalized kids have landed in the intensive care unit (ICU), and with increasingly complex cases, a ...

Language barriers may be particularly harmful in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where families encounter ...

Right now, hospitals across the state only have a handful of open beds to care for the most critically ill children. The North Carolina Pediatric Society uses a live dashboard to track capacity in ...

The change comes after "chronically low" use of the department, a spokesperson said.