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From Intensive Care to Critical Care Medicine: A Historical Perspective

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2011
Abstract The evolution of Critical Care Medicine is traced in relationship to its predecessors, namely Intensive Care and Intensive Therapy. This commentary documents the initial physical care rendered by professional nurses in hospitals of the 19th century in locations close to the nursing stations.
Max Harry, Weil, Wanchun, Tang
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Intensive care medicine in 2050: towards critical care without central lines

Intensive Care Medicine, 2018
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Jean-Louis Vincent, Frederic Michard, Bernd Saugel   +2 more
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Evolution of the Intensive Care Unit as a Clinical Center and Critical Care Medicine as a Discipline

Critical Care Clinics, 2009
This article discusses the history of the ICU and critical care medicine (CCM). It also discusses the certification of critical care nurses and allied health professionals, as well as CCM societies and congresses, education and board certification, evidence-based CCM, research and publications, and future challenges to the field.
Ake, Grenvik, Michael R, Pinsky
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Critical Care Medicine and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Archives of Surgery, 1982
In an editorial in the April 1982 issue of theArchives(1982;117:391), Sugerman discussed "Surgeons and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit." With an amused smile, I laid this editorial aside after I read it. Amused, because the opinions were expressed with such unbridled fervor.
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The Changing Face of Critical Care Medicine

AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care, 2005
Over the last 50 years, healthcare has undergone countless changes. Some of the important changes in recent years have been budget cuts, decreased resident work hours, and increased patient acuity. The need for additional clinical expertise at the bedside has resulted in nurse practitioners becoming an integral part of the healthcare delivery team.
Shirley, Molitor-Kirsch, Lisa, Thompson, Lisa, Milonovich   +2 more
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Historical overview of development of intensive care medicine and critical care

Inspirium, 2015
Beginings of intensive medicine in the world are recorded in the 50s of the 20th century and the beginnings of citical care are associated with the name of the Nurse Florence Nightingale, who took care about injured soldiers by night during the Crimean War (1853-1856). Her greatest contribution to the development of critical care was recognition of the
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What is an intensive care unit? A report of the task force of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine [PDF]

Journal of Critical Care, 2017
Since their widespread introduction more than half a century ago, intensive care units (ICUs) have become an integral part of the health care system. Although most ICUs are found in high-income countries, they are increasingly a feature of health care systems in low- and middle-income countries.
Marshall, JC, Bosco, L, Adhikari, Nk, Connolly, B, Diaz, JV, Dorman, T, Fowler, Ra, Meyfroidt, G, Nakagawa, S, Pelosi, P, Vincent, Jl, Vollman, K, Zimmerman, J   +12 more
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Critical care medicine: Observations from the Department of Veterans Affairsʼ intensive care units

Critical Care Medicine, 1994
To study the critical care medicine programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.Survey study.Data were obtained from 85% (113/133) of the acute care hospitals of the Department of Veterans Affairs.Intensive care unit (ICU) administrative and patient demographics, physician training and certification, participation in critical care medicine programs ...
N A, Halpern, J K, Wang, M, Alicea, R, Greenstein   +3 more
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Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine

Critical Care Medicine, 2001
T hese recommendations are intended to provide information and advice for clinicians who deliver end-of-life care in intensive care units (ICUs). The number of deaths that occur in the ICU after the withdrawal of life support is increasing, with one recent survey finding that 90% of patients who die in ICUs now do so after a decision to limit therapy ...
R D, Truog, A F, Cist, S E, Brackett, J P, Burns, M A, Curley, M, Danis, M A, DeVita, S H, Rosenbaum, D M, Rothenberg, C L, Sprung, S A, Webb, G S, Wlody, W E, Hurford   +12 more
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