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

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Scales, Damon C. (Editor ), Rubenfeld, Gordon D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Humana, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Respiratory Medicine,
Temas:
Critical care medicine.
Intensive Care Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Organizational Change in Critical Care: The Next Magic Bullet?
  • Origins of the Critically Ill: The Impetus for Critical Care Medicine
  • Intensivist and Alternative Models of ICU Staffing
  • Health Professionals in Critical Care
  • Computers in Intensive Care
  • Integrating Subspecialty Expertise in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Quality Improvement in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Facilitating Interactions between Healthcare Providers in the ICU
  • Teamwork and Leadership in the Critical Care Unit
  • Caring for ICU Providers
  • Rationing without Contemplation: Why Attention to Patient Flow is Important and How to Make it Better
  • Rapid Response Systems
  • The Chronically Critically Ill
  • Regionalization of Critical Care
  • International Perspectives on Critical Care
  • Critical Care in Low-Resource Settings
  • Disaster Planning for the Intensive Care Unit: A Critical Framework.

Ejemplares similares