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Critical Care
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Definition of 'Critical Care'Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis. Common names: Critical Care; Care, Critical |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza: experience from the critical care unit.
30 Oct 2009 
This case series details experience of critical care admissions with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza from an intensive care unit in the West Midlands. We present four critically ill patients admitted with severe hypoxia. Two of the patients failed a ... Read more...
30 Oct 2009 We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government-recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit. We found that ... Read more...
30 Oct 2009 We reviewed and classified all patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England and Wales to the National Patient Safety Agency for the first quarter of 2008. A total of 6649 incidents were submitted from 141 organisations ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Critical Care'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza: experience from the critical care unit. 30 Oct 2009
- An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'? 30 Oct 2009
- Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency. 30 Oct 2009
- Emergency traumatologists in trauma care.
30 Oct 2009 - Atypical clinical presentation of H1N1 influenza in a dialysis patient. 8 Oct 2009
- Association of physical examination with pulmonary artery catheter parameters in acute lung injury. 29 Sep 2009
- Baseline characteristics and statistical power in randomized controlled trials: selection, prognostic targeting, or covariate adjustment? 29 Sep 2009
- Critical care of the burn patient: the first 48 hours. 29 Sep 2009
- Blood lactate monitoring in critically ill patients: a systematic health technology assessment. 29 Sep 2009
- Lactate: finally ready for prime time? 29 Sep 2009
- Consequences of ventilator asynchrony: why can't we all get along? 29 Sep 2009
- Pulmonary artery catheter redux: physical findings in acute respiratory distress syndrome/acute lung injury. 29 Sep 2009
- Increasing power in randomized controlled trials. 29 Sep 2009
- Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 29 Sep 2009
- Brain tissue oxygen monitoring in traumatic brain injury and major trauma: outcome analysis of a brain tissue oxygen-directed therapy. 29 Sep 2009
- A simple algorithm for evaluating dermatologic disease in critically ill patients: a study based on retrospective review of medical intensive care unit consults. 29 Sep 2009
- By the numbers. 25 largest post-acute-care companies. Ranked by 2008 net revenue, based on Modern Healthcare's 2009 Post-Acute-Care Survey. 12 Sep 2009
- Training guidelines for ultrasound: worldwide trends. 30 Aug 2009
- Limited transthoracic echocardiography assessment in anaesthesia and critical care. 30 Aug 2009
- Using research to determine support for a policy on family presence during resuscitation. 30 Aug 2009
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Technical information about 'Critical Care'
Definition: Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.
Descriptor UI: D003422
Alternative terms: Critical Care; Care, Critical;
Related Mesh Headings: Intensive Care;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;
Tree Number: E02.760.190; N02.421.585.190;
History Note: 75