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The continuum of critical care
Until relatively recently, critical illness was considered as a separate entity and the intensive care unit (ICU), often a little cut-off from other areas of the hospital, was in many cases used as a last resort for patients so severely ill that it was no longer possible to care for them on the general ward.
J. Vincent
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Global critical care: a call to action
Critical care is underprioritized. A global call to action is needed to increase equitable access to care and the quality of care provided to critically ill patients. Current challenges to effective critical care in resource-constrained settings are many.
A. Crawford+11 more
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Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. RATIONALE: A guideline that both evaluates current practice and provides recommendations to address sedation, pain, and delirium management with regard for neuromuscular blockade and withdrawal is ...
Heidi A. B. Smith+28 more
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Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are aspiring, new technologies with increasing use in critical care medicine. While VR fully immerses the user into a virtual three-dimensional space, AR adds overlaid virtual elements into a real-world ...
R. Bruno+11 more
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Critical Care, Critical Data [PDF]
As big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence continue to penetrate into and transform many facets of our lives, we are witnessing the emergence of these powerful technologies within health care. The use and growth of these technologies has been contingent on the availability of reliable and usable data, a particularly robust resource in ...
David J. Stone+5 more
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Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care Medicine
This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2022. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2022 .
J. H. Yoon, M. Pinsky, G. Clermont
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Towards definitions of critical illness and critical care using concept analysis
Objective As ‘critical illness’ and ‘critical care’ lack consensus definitions, this study aimed to explore how the concepts’ are used, describe their defining attributes, and propose potential definitions. Design and methods We used the Walker and Avant
R. Kayambankadzanja,+7 more
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On February 20, 2020, a patient in his 30s admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) in Codogno Hospital (Lodi, Lombardy, Italy) tested positive for a new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes ...
G. Grasselli, A. Pesenti, M. Cecconi
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How the COVID-19 pandemic will change the future of critical care
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has posed unprecedented healthcare system challenges, some of which will lead to transformative change. It is obvious to healthcare workers and policymakers alike that an effective critical care surge response must be ...
Y. Arabi+23 more
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