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History of Critical Care Medicine (2023 = 70th anniversary), An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 39-3 - May 26, 2023
- Editor: Hannah Wunsch
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 4 0 1 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 4 0 1 2 - 2
In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editor Dr. Hannah Wunsch brings her considerable expertise to the topic of History of Critical Care Medicine. The term “Critical Care… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editor Dr. Hannah Wunsch brings her considerable expertise to the topic of History of Critical Care Medicine. The term “Critical Care Medicine” was first introduced in the 1950s at the University of Southern California—making 2023 the 70th anniversary of this subspecialty. This issue provides a fascinating look at important aspects of the history of the field, which originated with the concept that immediately life-endangered patients, the critically ill and injured, may have substantially better chances of survival if provided with professionally advanced minute-to-minute objective measurements.
Contains 10 practice-oriented topics including early pediatric ICU care; mechanical ventilation: negative to positive and back again; airway management over the last 100 years; critical care nursing from the 1950s to the 2020s; from strict bedrest to early mobilization: a history of physiotherapy in the ICU; visiting hours and the changing place of family in the ICU; and more.
Critical Care Medicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Challenges of ICU Care in the Early Days
- First, a description of the circumstances that existed in the late 1950s
- Interactions with other medical staff
- Mechanical Ventilation: Negative to Positive and Back Again
- Key points
- History
- The iron lung
- Positive-pressure ventilation
- Ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Noninvasive ventilation coming back in the intensive care unit
- A quick story of positive end-expiratory pressure for adult (acute) respiratory distress syndrome
- Tidal volume
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Airway Management During the Last 100 Years
- Key points
- Direct laryngoscopy
- Fiberoptic bronchoscopy
- Supraglottic airway devices
- Algorithms for difficult airway
- Videolaryngoscopy
- Clinics care points
- Thinking Clearly: The History of Brain Dysfunction in Critical Illness
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Funding/support
- Role of the funder/sponsor
- From Strict Bedrest to Early Mobilization: A History of Physiotherapy in the Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Concepts and definitions
- The clinical landscape
- Past
- Future
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Critical Care Pharmacists: A Focus on Horizons
- Key points
- Introduction
- History
- Critical care pharmacists improve outcomes
- Evidence-based medicine: quality drives the need for critical care pharmacists
- The gap: not every critically ill patient receives the care of a critical care pharmacist
- Discussion of the future
- A data-driven future
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Conflicts of interest
- Funding
- Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit: Past, Present, and Future
- Key points
- Pre-palliative care
- Paradigm shift: 1970s to 2010s
- The future of palliative care in the ICU
- Clinics care points
- Evolution of Visiting the Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Development of the Modern Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit and Current Management
- Key points
- Contemporary reasons for cardiothoracic intensive care unit admission beyond standard cardiac surgery
- Common problems in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit
- Techniques frequently used in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Who should provide care in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit?
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Four Decades of Intensive Care Unit Design Evolution and Thoughts for the Future
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Critical Care 1950 to 2022: Evolution of Medicine, Nursing, Technology, and Design
- Key points
- Introduction
- The earliest antecedents
- Evolution of patient care after World War II (WWII) and Korean War (1950s)
- Early generations of critical care (mid-1950s to 1960s)
- Medical technology and monitoring
- Digital medical records and decentralization
- The role of codes and standards
- ICU design guidelines are transformed
- Financial incentives and disincentives
- Universal room and acuity-adaptable room experiments
- Same-handed rooms and error reduction
- COVID-19 pandemic experience and lessons (2019-today)
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Afterword It Was a Different World Then… Ramblings from an Early Intensivist on Care and Quality Measures
- Inventing the Intensive Care Unit
- Early Limitations
- Jumping Forward a Decade or Two …
- The Quest for Quality
- The Birth of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 39-3
- Published: May 26, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323940115
- eBook ISBN: 9780323940122
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Hannah Wunsch
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre