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ICU Management

New-app-for-patients-who-can-t-speak

2016 07 Nov

An app for patients who cannot communicate has been developed by Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre’s intensive care department. The app (voICe) was released in Dutch in 2013 and is now available in English. It consists of 50 pictograms, for adults and children, grouped in 6 themes, that speak and show the text. When the pictogram is touched,...Read more

ICU Management

Ipads-help-new-moms-bond-with-their-infants-in-the-neonatal-intensive-care-unit

2013 05 Apr

A new iPad® program in the Maxine Dunitz Children’s Health Center at Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles, CA, USA) is enabling mothers to bond with their newborns soon after delivery – even when parent and child are hospitalized on different floors. Moms who are not ambulatory after delivery, perhaps because of a cesarean section or other complications,...Read more