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Health Economics and Critical Care

WebHealth care has always had to grapple with limited resources, but the challenge that society increasingly faces today is how to continue to deliver high-quality care that yields …

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Preventing Chronic Critical Illness and Rehospitalization

WebAn estimated 14 million patients survive sepsis hospitalization each year. However, survivors commonly experience new functional disability, cognitive impairment, …

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Critical Care and Oncology

WebCancer remains a leading health care challenge worldwide, including the United States, where 1.8 million new cases of cancer and 606,520 deaths from cancer …

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Essential Emergency and Critical Care

WebCritical illness is a state of ill health with vital organ dysfunction, a high risk of imminent death if care is not provided, and the potential for reversibility. An estimated 45 million …

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Subspecialty critical care, Part II

WebIn many ways, critical care medicine has finally come of age. Health care decision-makers and the general public now fully recognize the benefit of intensivists and intensivist …

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Health Economic Methods: Cost-Minimization

WebResources in the health care system are limited, and it is important to maximize the health benefits to patients within the resources available. In the critical care setting, this is …

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Oncologic Emergencies

WebThe recognition and management of oncologic emergencies are becoming increasingly relevant in the intensive care unit, particularly in the era of novel biologic therapies. Early …

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Nosocomial Pneumonia

WebBACKGROUND Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is the second most common cause of nosocomial in-fections.1 NP is defined as lower respiratory infection that develops in a …

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Health Economic Methods: Cost-Minimization, Cost …

WebHealth Economic Methods: Cost-Minimization, Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Utility, and Cost-Beneﬁt Evaluations Alisa M. Higgins, MPH, BPhysio(Hons), Grad Dip Biostats a,*, …

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Nutritional Support of the Burn Patient

WebNutritional support of the burn patient is essential to optimize host immune defenses and to promote prompt wound healing. The interdependent relationship between metabolism, …

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Essential Emergency and Critical Care

WebEECC is defined as the care that all critically ill patients should receive in all hospitals in the world,27 and is the care that supports vital organ functions; the universal care for all …

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A structure of care for the chronically critically ill

WebSince its inception, a main goal of critical care medicine has been to prevent death. This belief has been based on a beneficence-based clinical assumption that every reduction …

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Oxygen as an Essential Medicine

WebSupplemental oxygen is an essential medication in critical care. The optimal oxygen dose delivery system remains unclear, however. The “dose” and “delivery” of oxygen carry …

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Critical Care 1950 to 2022

WebCritical care units—designed for concentrated and specialized care—came from multiple parallel advances in medical, surgical, and nursing techniques and training taking …

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Pediatric Critical Care Outcomes

WebChildren who survive the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are at risk of developing post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-p). PICS-p, defined as new physical, …

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Telemedicine to Expand Access to Critical Care Around the World

WebThe COVID pandemic has demonstrated that bridging the urban–rural health divide in critical care is eminently doable. With 15% of ICU beds in the United States participating …

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Management of Arrhythmias in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care …

WebArrhythmias in the cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) can be difficult to manage because of the complex hemodynamic and respiratory states of critically ill patients. …

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The State of Global Trauma and Acute Care

WebIn 2019, 714 million people suffered, and 4.3 million died from injuries, accounting for 7.6% of the worldwide mortality. 2. Over the last 30 years, trauma has been consistently …

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History of Solid Organ Transplantation and Organ Donation

WebSolid organ transplantation is one of the most remarkable and dramatic therapeutic advances in medicine during the past 60 years. This field has progressed initially from …

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Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure

WebAcute hypoxemic respiratory failure is defined by Pao2 less than 60 mm Hg or SaO2 less than 88% and may result from V/Q mismatch, shunt, hypoventilation, diffusion limitation, …

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Evolution of Visiting the Intensive Care Unit

WebThis article gives a historical perspective of visitation in the intensive care unit (ICU) since the establishment of critical care units. Initially, visitors were not allowed because it was …

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