Abstract
Surgical intensive care - current and future challenges?
Highlights
Address for Correspondence: Stefan Alfred Hubertus Rohrig Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) & Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
There is one very specific challenge in the surgical setting: the intensivist has to manage the patient flow starting from admission to the hospital through to the operating theater, in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), and postoperatively for the discharge to the ward
SICU intensivists take the role of arbitrators between surgical demand and patient’s interests
Summary
Bjorn Ibsen, an anesthetist who pioneered positive pressure ventilation as a treatment option during the Copenhagen polio epidemic of 1952, set up the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Europe in 1953. In that sense Ibsen is more or less the father of intensive care medicine as a specialty and an advocate of the one-to-one nursing ratio for critically ill patients.
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