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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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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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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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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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Definitions and consensus recommendations on critical care medicine at altitude from the Expert Committee on Critical Care Medicine at altitude of the Pan-American and Iberian Federation of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care

Medicina Intensiva (English Edition)
The Expert Committee on Critical Care Medicine at Altitude of the Pan American and Iberian Federation of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care detected a lack of terms defining this critical care medicine, as well as a lack of standardization in the approach to these patients.
Amilcar, Tinoco-Solórzano, Adrian, Avila-Hilari, Manuel Luis, Avellanas-Chavala, Felipe de Jesús, Montelongo, Jorge, Vélez-Páez, Víctor, Nieto Estrada, Antonio, Viruez Soto, Daniel, Molano Franco, Eduardo, Castelo Tamayo, Ignacio, Granda Luna, Alfonso, Salazar Mendoza, Luis, Mamani Cruz, Jonathan, Galindo Ayala, Pablo, Vásquez-Hoyos, Fausto, Maldonado Coronel, Roger, Huanca Payehuanca, Jorge Rosendo, Sánchez Medina   +16 more
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Synopsis of Intensive Care Medicine; Current Critical Care Diagnosis and Management

BMJ, 1995
Synopsis of Intensive Care medicine , L I G Worthley Churchill Livingstone, pounds sterling59.50, pp 985 ISBN 0 443 04638 7 Current Critical Care Diagnosis and Management , Ed Frederic S Bongard, Darryl Y Sue Appleton and Lange, pounds sterling32.25, pp 787 ISBN 0 8385 1088 4 The definition of intensive care varies from country to country.
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The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1985
Following the founding of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) in the USA in 1970, and of other national Critical Care Medicine (CCM) societies in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Israel, South Africa and Central and South America, a World Congress on Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) was held in London in 1973.
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Critical care management of chimeric antigen receptor T‐cell therapy recipients

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Alexander Shimabukuro-Vornhagen, Boris Böll, Peter Schellongowski   +2 more
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Should Intensive Care Medicine Itself Be on the Critical List?

Chest, 2009
William, Dunn, Joseph, Murphy
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