In his excellent piece in the New Yorker this week, Atul Gawande spends some time discussing ICU doctor supervision via the electronic ICU system.
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After the Mass General ICU staff received their pizzas from North Carolina, they also reached out to Hillcrest, sending lunch and dinner to the Texas hospital's ICU on April 21.
Although the Ethiopian army successfully ousted the ICU from power in less than a week, backed by massive military and financial assistance from Eritrea, as well as Egypt and Libya, the ICU has waged a brutal insurgency against the TFG and the Ethiopian military for the past year.
Unwilling to accept a radical Islamist neighbor, Ethiopia is preparing to strike at the ICU, which would almost certainly lead Eritrea - the ICU's largest patron and Ethiopia's greatest enemy - to retaliate, in turn potentially drawing in Kenya and Sudan on the sides of the TFG and the ICU, respectively.
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There is a lot of noise that goes on in ICU. The people are oddly silent.
She stood in the fluorescent-lit waiting room of Lenox Hill's ICU, her arms crossed.
Happily, conservationists were able to rush the Picasso into the ICU, removing the stenciled spray paint.
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In a Taliban-like manner, the ICU has closed cinemas and prohibited music and mixed-gender parties.
Six months after the ICU established itself in Mogadishu, Ethiopia invaded Somalia, with backing from Washington.
Is it surprising that they have a longer stay or more days in the ICU?
The invasion came a month after the ICU declared jihad against Ethiopia and Kenya.
"The strength is seeing their faces, their smiles, knowing they're getting better, " says ICU nurse Jean Acquadra.
In the middle of the night she was transferred to the ICU and put on a breathing machine.
In just six days, the ICU was overthrown and the recognized Somali government had retaken control over Mogadishu.
Within a matter of hours he was moved to an ICU unit on the upper floors of the hospital.
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Another 10-14 days in ICU. Passing that test, a few months of therapy.
While 24 percent of those who died used the ICU in 2000, 29 percent received intensive care in 2009.
In areas that the ICU has come to control, it has hardly attempted to disguise its vision for greater Somalia.
Backed by the US, Ethiopia invaded to restore the recognized Transitional Federal Government to power which the ICU had deposed.
Both governments were concerned that the ICU were establishing fundamentalist Islamist rule and giving al Qaeda a foothold in Africa.
The ICU receives support not only from Eritrea, but from the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Currently we have funding for three ICU beds at Bronglais and 'flex' our ability to open two additional beds when required.
She said that staff and bed numbers in the ICU had increased since 1995 which have eased pressure at the hospital.
Hopkins physician Peter Pronovost, who developed the now widely used ICU checklists, was an evangelist for safety, not a paid consultant.
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Alf stayed in the hospital for two weeks, mostly in the ICU. She is staying with her parents during her recovery.
When Johns Hopkins Hospital did this and took other steps in a surgical ICU, rates of catheter infections dropped to nearly zero.
She did that to free up beds in the ICU and clear up the "clutter" the patients were causing, according to police.
Her lawyer, Elias Mattar Assad, said she will prove that her orders in the ICU were backed and justified by medical literature.
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