What is Intensive Care Medicine and how did the specialty arise? Intensive care medicine is a young specialty that deals with the medical treatment of the sickest patients in the hospital. Intensive ...

Intensive care unit (ICU)–acquired weakness often develops in patients who are undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. Early active mobilization may mitigate ICU-acquired weakness, increase ...

Neurocritical care is an evolving subspecialty, integrating clinical expertise in neurology, neurosurgery, and intensive care medicine to diagnose and treat critically ill patients with neurological ...

The SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine Critical Care Medicine fellowship program offers a one or two-year A.C.G.M.E.-accredited critical care fellowship to graduates of approved ...

Intensive insulin therapy reduces morbidity and mortality in patients in surgical intensive care units (ICUs), but its role in patients in medical ICUs is unknown. In a prospective, randomized, ...

Before the 1930s, many of those undergoing the most complicated surgeries died soon after. One gifted surgeon made a simple but drastic change which transformed healthcare. Harvey Cushing was the most ...

Pediatric intensive care has only been recognized as a distinct subspecialty for 20 y. The specialty grew out of a need for increasingly complex postoperative management, in the face of advances in ...

Respiratory and heart problems are the top reasons children are admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the U.S. (Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime) What is the PICU? The ...

The primary training goal is to prepare our graduates to be excellent clinicians, ready to enter and excel in any practice after graduation with a strong emphasis on TEE. Upon completion of the ...

The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine offers a three-year combined ACGME-accredited comprehensive subspecialty training program that ...