Across the country, many intensive care units are strained for capacity. This prolongs the boarding process in the emergency department, when critically ill patients – for whom every minute and hour ...

Intensive care unit admissions from the emergency department increased by nearly 50 percent from 2002 through 2009, according to a study in Academic Emergency Medicine. Researchers examined trends in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Each additional minute patients spent boarded in the ED led to a 0.026% increase in ICU ...

San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital in Banning, Calif., has made progress in the construction of its new emergency department and intensive care unit, according to a Press-Enterprise report. The new ED and ...

Early clinical deterioration requiring escalation in care occurred in 3.6% of patients in the emergency department (ED), with nearly half of these events occurring while patients were still in the ED.