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Perioperative intensive care medicine [PDF]
Medicina Intensiva (English Edition), 2019 Surgery represents one of the main therapeutic references in the world, affording greater survival and life expectancy for many patients. In general, the estimated postoperative mortality is low (around 1-4%). Thirteen percent of the surgical procedures have a high risk of complications, accounting for 80% of all postoperative deaths.
F. Gordo Vidal, M.C. Martín Delgado
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The future of intensive care medicine
Medicina Intensiva, 2013 Intensive care medical training, whether as a primary specialty or as secondary add-on training, should include key competences to ensure a uniform standard of care, and the number of intensive care physicians needs to increase to keep pace with the growing and anticipated need.
Critical Care Center, Hospital de Sabadell, Corporacio Sanitaria Universitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain ( host institution ) +10 more
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College of Intensive Care Medicine: changes to intensive care medicine training
Critical Care and Resuscitation, 2014 The College of Intensive Care Medicine provides the standards for training and certification of intensive care medicine specialists in Australia and New Zealand. After reviewing and revising its training program, the College recently launched a new training curriculum for all trainees registering from 2014, aimed at maintaining quality. In this article,
Rob, Bevan +2 more
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Training in Intensive Care Medicine
Acute Medicine Journal, 2011 Training in Intensive Care Medicine is currently undergoing extensive changes, with the introduction of a new curriculum and new examinations. This article explains the new pathways for training in Intensive Care, with specific reference to trainees in Acute Medicine.
Booth C, Whiteside A
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Recommendations on palliative care aspects in intensive care medicine
Critical Care, 2023 Abstract Background The timely integration of palliative care is important for patients suffering from various advanced diseases with limited prognosis. While a German S-3-guideline on palliative care exists for patients with incurable cancer, a recommendation for non-oncological patients and especially for integration ...
Michels, Guido +23 more
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The craft of intensive care medicine [PDF]
Sociology of Health & Illness, 2012 AbstractThe practice of medicine is often represented as a dualism: is medicine a ‘science’ or an ‘art’? This dualism has been long‐lasting, with evident appeal for the medical profession. It also appears to have been rhetorically powerful, for example in enabling clinicians to resist the encroachment of ‘scientific’ evidence‐based medicine into core ...
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Narrative Medicine In Intensive Care
Anesthesia & Clinical Care, 2019 Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to interpret the stories of illness. The histories of illness pass through a process of listening and empathic understanding aimed at the therapeutic objective. Storytelling is an inherent behavior in humans. This becomes more important in intensive care where technology often
E. Primerano, D. Alampi
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Speciality status for Intensive Care Medicine? [PDF]
European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 2001 Intensive care medicine (ICM) originates in response to the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952. Long-term mechanical ventilation was then introduced as a treatment, and a broad spectrum of additional intensive care became necessary. This successful experience stimulated others in various countries and specialities.
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Intensive care medicine: a multidisciplinary approach!
European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 2011 Journal of the Portuguese Society of Anesthesiology, v. 21, n.
H. Van Aken +2 more
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The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine [PDF]
Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2011 Volume 12, Number 1, January 2011 JICS 6 The foundation of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine by seven parent colleges is an important milestone in our development of a multidisciplinary professional identity. It has taken many individuals and organisations nearly twenty years to achieve this.
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