The Organization of Critical Care An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scales, Damon C. (Editor), Rubenfeld, Gordon D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Humana Press, 2014.
• Series: Respiratory Medicine, 18
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

The origin of modern intensive care units (ICUs) has frequently been attributed to the widespread provision of mechanical ventilation within dedicated hospital areas during the 1952 Copenhagen polio epidemic.  However, modern ICUs have developed to treat or monitor patients who have any severe, life...