Aging

Key Steps Can Help Patients Recover From A Stay In The ICU

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)

Your 80-something-year-old dad has just been admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit after a stroke or a heart attack. Now, he’s surrounded by blinking monitors, with tubes in his arms and alarms going off around him. Continue reading article here……

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