What Role Do Dogs Play in ICUs?

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Dr. Megan Hosey PhD speaks about how dogs in the ICU can help lessen patients’ pain & make them more hopeful. Getting people out of bed in intensive care units, even when they’re being mechanically ventilated, is associated with better outcomes. Can dogs help? That’s the hope of a program to utilize dogs in the ICU underway at Johns Hopkins. Megan Hosey is an expert in the recovery of critically ill people and one author of a recent paper describing the strategy in Critical Care.

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