The intensive care units at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge have been honored with the 2015 ICU Design Citation Award recognizing their design as the most innovative and ...

Refreshing an intensive care unit (ICU) -- making changes that update or improve a healthcare space without a full-scale renovation or demolition -- is an opportunity to improve the healing ...

In an acute care hospital, the intensive care unit staff must effectively use specialized equipment, while making split-second decisions pertaining to the care of a large number of medically fragile ...

(Boston)—Advances in technology, the evolution of patient- and-family centered care, and infection control challenges—evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic—highlight the possibilities and challenges ...

(Boston)—Delirium is characterized by an acute change in cognition, accompanied by either altered consciousness or disorganized thinking. The condition is common in the post-surgical intensive care ...

Just before COVID-19 rocked the medical community, Middle Tennessee healthcare organization Ascension Saint Thomas embarked on designing its newest intensive care unit. The 36-bed unit is part of a ...

An international group of designers, engineers, and health experts created a way to repurpose shipping containers as portable intensive care units (ICUs). The units are called CURA pods, and able to ...

Little known fact: Florence Nightingale might have been the most famous clinician to notice and openly comment on the role of hospital design in patient care. In her now well-known writings on nursing ...