Critically ill patients in hospitals need a great deal of support. Besides round-the-clock care from trained professionals, patients in the intensive care unit must also have support from their family members. The environment in the ICU isn’t always conducive to family involvement. New guidance hopes to change that.
How telemedicine is revolutionizing health care
Telemedicine has been around for more than 40 years, originally serving as a way to connect doctors to rural patients. With rural hospitals continuing to close at an alarming rate, this is still a highly valid use. However, as technology has evolved over the decades, so has telemedicine. Today, it’s a safe, convenient, cost-effective way for essentially any patient to […] [MORE]
Laughter is the best medicine, even for hospital ICU workers
When you work in a hospital, especially the ICU, you aren’t often presented with the opportunity to let out a deep belly laugh. And if you are, it’s often not appropriate to laugh about it … at that time! But we should all take a moment throughout the day to have a good laugh — […] [MORE]
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