Hospital Diagnostic Errors Are Common Among Patients Who Died or Were Transferred to ICU: Study
Common errors in diagnosing patients involved clinicians ordering the wrong tests, or mistakes in reading test results, according to the researchers.
Common errors in diagnosing patients involved clinicians ordering the wrong tests, or mistakes in reading test results, according to the researchers.
Designed to treat schizophrenia and Tourette syndrome, doctors often use Haldol off-label for the treatment of delirium even though it is not approved for that use.
Length of coma played more of a role in increased mortality, more so than the occurrence of mechanical ventilation delirium in the ICU
Traumatic brain injury neurocritical care not only decreased mortality rates, but also increased long-term recovery.