Every year, over a million Americans are placed on a ventilator — and kept deeply sedated through it. We're building the technology to change that: patients awake, comfortable, and recovering faster.
Get in touch →To tolerate intensive care, the sickest patients are held under deep sedation for days. It keeps them still — but it exposes them to other major harms, including delirium, serious blood clots, pressure sores and infections, pneumonia, muscle wasting, longer stays in the ICU, and recoveries that can take months — or never fully arrive.
We imagine critical care where patients on a ventilator are awake and interactive, moving sooner, and leaving the hospital stronger — not weakened by the very care meant to save them. That future is closer than it looks. We're building it.
ICUFree is built by critical-care physicians and medical-device founders who have carried breakthrough technology from the bedside into hospitals across the country. We know how to turn a clinical insight into a device patients feel. We're doing it again — for a far bigger problem.