This article presents the elements of the Intervention section of the Infant Care Path for Physical Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The types of physical therapy interventions presented in this path are evidence-based and the suggested timing of these interventions is primarily based on practice knowledge from expert therapists, with supporting evidence cited. Physical thera...

Oral care is a fundamental aspect of nursing and impacts the health, comfort, well-being patients over both short long term. Providing adequate oral for in intensive units (ICUs) particularly challenging, due part to problems caring very sick busy stressful environment, which may result having lower priority nurses than other aspects care. This review considers evidence supporting use ICU makes...

BACKGROUND The incidence of candidemia continues to rise in recent years. Candidemic patients often require care in an intensive care unit (ICU) and can consume substantial resources. However, there are no contemporary longitudinal population-level data on the incidence patterns of ICU utilization among patients with candidemia in the United States. METHODS The Texas Inpatient Public Use Data...