Intensive care unit models: Do you want them to be open or closed? A critical review.
Neurol India
; 65(1): 39-45, 2017.
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| ID: mdl-28084236
ABSTRACT
Intensive care is a specialized branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, management, and follow up of critically ill or critically injured patients. It requires input from other branches of medicine on various issues. A critical care specialist has expertise in managing such patients round the clock. Based on his freedom to take decisions in the intensive care unit (ICU), different types of ICUs - open, closed, or semi-closed - have been defined. There is no doubt that all critical patients should be evaluated by an intensivist. Therefore, it is argued that a closed ICU model would be the ideal model. However, this may not always be feasible and other models may be more useful in resource-limited countries. In this review, we compare the different formats of ICU functioning and their suitability in different hospitals.
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Cuidados Críticos
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Unidades de Terapia Intensiva
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article