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Dropping the ball: Post-ICU, many patients not getting the correct meds

from University of Michigan

Dropping the ball: Post-ICU, many patients not getting the correct meds University of Michigan In the intensive care units of hospitals everywhere, patients fight for their lives against serious disease while teams of clinicians work around the clock, doing whatever it takes to stabilize them. But what happens to these patients once they leave this high stakes environment? For many, the intense juggling act of the ICU gives way to "a series of dropped balls," says Theodore J. Iwashyna, MD, Ph.D., professor of critical care medicine at the University of Michigan and a staff physician at the VA Ann Arbor. READ MORE

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