Abstract
An aging population, increasingly complex surgical procedures and yet shorter inpatient stays has led to much a greater proportion of significantly ill patients within the in-patient population [1]. Such patients may benefit from input from critical care, hence the need for expansion of critical care beyond the traditional physical boundaries of high dependency and intensive care units [1]. Thus, in the United Kingdom the levels of care are now defined as follows [1].
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Mukherjee, S., Brett, S.J. (2010). On the Response to Acutely Deteriorating Patients. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5562-3_49
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