It was the last hour of a long 12-hour day in the Mission Hospital Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, a usually quiet hallway of beeping monitors. Susan McGill could hear the man yelling as he was wheeled ...

Jacksonville, Ill.-based Passavant Area Hospital, an affiliate of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health System, launched remote telemetry services with Advanced ICU Care, a telehealth and patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A checklist for cardiac ICU physicians, who often treat both cardiac and noncardiac conditions, may improve ...

Critically ill cardiovascular patients require special care in the cardiac ICU due to the unique complications that they are prone to suffer, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Best ...

Although current policy at many hospitals is for patients to have continuous routine cardiac monitoring in the hours after undergoing PCI, a new study suggests it may be safe to forgo it in patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Retia Medical announced that a cardiac output monitoring device for patients who are at high surgical risk or ...

For patients in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU), use of a bedside checklist on daily rounds could optimize care and help prevent infections and other common complications, the American Heart ...

Multimodal strategies can prevent delirium after cardiovascular procedures, emphasizing risk factors and screening.

CLEVELAND — At five months, little Cody Waldron underwent open heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. He won't remember being the first patient inside UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital's ...

The growing proportion of severely obese cardiac-surgery patients is going to place increasing strain on healthcare resources, as they are more likely to require intensive care unit (ICU) services and ...

With confetti poppers, hospital administrators and families recently celebrated the opening of a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn. The 16-bed unit, ...