We Can, but Should We?

Robert Brett Kelly

doi:10.3389/fped.2016.00001

Abstract

We Can, but Should We?

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Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Pediatric Critical Care, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics
But should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians, I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should

Summary

Introduction

Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians, I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine [1]. I hesitate to preach how we, as pediatric critical care physicians, should interpret our hospital work given our varied cultural, familial, and experiential backgrounds, perhaps I can suggest that we need to.

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