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ICU Organization: Does it Matter?

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2000

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 2000))

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“Physicians tend to be unimpressed with the descriptions of intensive care units (ICUs). It seems to them that the assessments of the results are naive, survival being taken as equivalent of a life saved. They suspect that, however expert the handling of an apparatus, there is still a shallow understanding of the disease and over-readiness to employ the most dramatic treatment... One is tempted to say that the treatment is often more intense than careful... I believe, therefore, with many of my colleagues, that (the development of ICUs) will prove to have been an aberrations”

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  1. M. P. Young
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  1. Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Head Department of Intensive Care) (Head Department of Intensive Care)

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Young, M.P., Surgenor, S.D., Corwin, H.L. (2000). ICU Organization: Does it Matter?. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2000. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13455-9_68

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