New pediatric ICU provides critical care closer to home for East Texas children

Christus Trinity Mother Frances has opened a new pediatric intensive care unit in Tyler that allows critically ill children ...
Healio

Primary care follow-up within week of ICU discharge infrequent in pediatric patients

Less than 30% of pediatric patients who survived ICU hospitalization followed up with their primary care provider within 1 ...
NBC Connecticut

As Challenges Weigh Down, Pediatric ICU Nurses Press Forward

Inside the Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital Pediatric ICU, nurses meet for their evening shift change, after a day where their patient count more than doubled. “Yesterday we had seven patients and ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Terminal cleaning may not be effective in all areas of pediatric ICU

Despite terminal cleaning, the floors near sinks and return air ducts in a pediatric intensive care unit were not found to be adequately clean, a new study shows. Researchers used data from a previous ...
WRAL

Inside UNC's pediatric ICU, where the tiniest patients struggle to breathe

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 ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Diary Reduces Family Stress and Anxiety in PICU

A ceiling mounted hospital directional sign highlighting the way towards the intensive care unit – 3D render Storybook diary helps families cope in the pediatric intensive care unit. Keeping a family ...
ABC 7 Chicago

As RSV cases and hospitalizations surge, only 6 percent of pediatric ICU beds are open in Illinois

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Local doctors are raising the alarm about preventing the spread of RSV, a respiratory illness in children, that is causing a large number of hospitalizations. Currently, RSV -- along ...
KEYT

State restricts Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Pediatric ICU from accepting some new patients

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has restricted Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital from accepting some new chronically ill children to its pediatric intensive ...
Newsweek

Mom Reveals 5 Things She’d Never Let Kids Do After Working in Pediatric ICU

A mom-of-four has shared her list of the five things she would never let her kids do after spending time working in a pediatric intensive care unit (ICT). Parenting can be a stressful experience, not ...
KOAT Albuquerque

UNM pediatric ICU nurses share experience during RSV peak

REFLECTING ON THAT EXPERIENCE WITH STEPHANIE MOONEY’S DEATH. HEY, RON. WELL, A MONTH AGO, THE UNARMED PEDIATRIC UNIT AT UNM HOSPITAL BECAME OVERWHELM WITH SICK KIDS. NOW, PEDIATRIC NURSES HAVE ...