A Tactic to Cut I.C.U. Trauma - Get Patients Up

Contrary to popular belief, many people do survive their stay in the ICU - the issue for them is recovering from their critical illness as quickly as possible.

See this week's widely circulated nytimes article on tactics to do exactly that:
A Tactic to Cut I.C.U. Trauma - Get Patients Up - NYTimes.com

The actual engineering behind the walker devices for ICU patients is incredible:

ICU Walker

Many technologies drive the cost of health care - this one at least seems to drive down in-hospital costs of health care. Paradoxically, it increases out-of-hospital costs of health care, but that's a debate for another post.