Its authors observed an aggregate in-hospital mortality of 12% for ICU patients.

In the United States, sepsis is the leading cause of death for ICU patients which do not have heart problems.

"Our ICU patients can't receive gifts or flowers."

In our previous study in ICU patients [ 11 ] 84.5% of the antibiotics were prescribed without bacteriological support.

The numeric scores are then converted into predicted mortality by using a logistic regression formula developed and validated on populations of ICU patients.

All chronic-care ICU patients who are comatose or nearly so can be admitted.

Also elderly need assessment by special instruments to predict the prognosis of ICU patients older than 75 years.

The usual routine was to keep ICU patients calm and quiet, sedated if necessary.

A hospital in Melbourne, Australia implemented similar strategies as these to reduce transmission and prevent further infection of more ICU patients.

In the rural centers, the emergency room (ER) was the source of admission for 56% of the ICU patients.