Expanding intensive care medicine beyond the intensive care unit

AUTOR(ES)

Hillman, Ken

FONTE

BioMed Central

RESUMO

Intensive care medicine probably requires the artificial boundaries of an intensive care unit to nurture and legitimize the specialty. The next major step in intensive care medicine is to explore ways of optimizing the outcome of seriously ill patients by recognizing and resuscitating them at an earlier stage. Some of these ways include better education of existing staff; earlier consultation; and automatic calling by intensive care staff to abnormalities identifying at-risk patients. Some of these interventions are currently being evaluated and results should soon indicate their relative effectiveness.

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