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Care of intensive care unit patient

Known as: Care, Critical, Critical care, intensive care unit patient 
Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.
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Critical care medicine specialtyEmergencies [Disease/Finding]Procedure note:Find:Pt:Hospital:Doc:Pediatric critical care medicineSpecialty Type - Critical care

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Surgical Intensive Care

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patient care

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Review
2010
Review
2010
Models for structuring a clinical initiative to enhance palliative care in the intensive care unit: A report from the IPAL-ICU Project (Improving Palliative Care in the ICU)*
Objective:To describe models used in successful clinical initiatives to improve the quality of palliative care in critical care… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Clinical review: Medication errors in critical care
Medication errors in critical care are frequent, serious, and predictable. Critically ill patients are prescribed twice as many… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Communication skills and error in the intensive care unit
Purpose of reviewPoor communication in critical care teams has been frequently shown as a contributing factor to adverse events… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Critical care delivery in the United States: Distribution of services and compliance with Leapfrog recommendations*
Objectives:To describe the organization and distribution of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and services in the United States… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Invasive candidiasis in the intensive care unit
Objective:To review epidemiologic trends, advances in diagnosis and susceptibility testing, therapeutic options and guidelines… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Olanzapine vs haloperidol: treating delirium in a critical care setting
ObjectiveTo compare the safety and estimate the response profile of olanzapine, a second-generation antipsychotic, to haloperidol… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Length of stay and mortality in neurocritically ill patients: Impact of a specialized neurocritical care team*
Objective:To determine predictors of in-hospital and long-term mortality and length of stay in patients admitted to the… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Rationing critical care beds: A systematic review*
Objective:Rationing critical care beds occurs daily in the hospital setting. The objective of this systematic review was to… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine
T hese recommendations are intended to provide information and advice for clinicians who deliver end-of-life care in intensive… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Impact of critical care physician staffing on patients with septic shock in a university hospital medical intensive care unit.
To evaluate the effects of reorganizing physician resources in a medical intensive care unit (MICU), we studied the impact of… 
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