RT Book, Section
A1 Douglas, Ivor S.
A1 Kress, John P.
A1 Schmidt, Gregory A.
A2 Schmidt, Gregory A.
A2 Kress, John P.
A2 Douglas, Ivor S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1201797941
T1 21st Century Critical Care—An Introduction
T2 Hall, Schmidt and Wood’s Principles of Critical Care, 5<sup>th</sup> Edition
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264264353
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1201797941
RD 2023/12/02
AB The  clinical  practice  and  science  of  critical  care  has  emerged  as  a  mature  multidisciplinary  medical  specialty  but  access  to  critical  care—trained  clinicians—remains  highly  variable  and  inconsistent.Excellence  in  team-based  care  and  leadership  requires  specific  training  and  skills  to  be  most  effective.  Clinical  mastery  alone  is  insufficient  to  deliver  outstanding  care  and  should  be  enhanced  with  skills  in  organizational  leadership  and  interpersonal  communication.Pathophysiologically  informed  diagnosis  and  treatment  is  the  cornerstone  of  excellent  critical  care.  Incorporating  human  factors  and  principles  of  behavioral  economics  into  critical  care  organization  and  clinical  decision-making  enhances  reliability  and  consistency  in  the  delivery  of  high-quality  care.Critical  care  resides  at  the  intersection  of  personal  and  public  health  and  requires  humble  and  fastidious  stewardship  of  scarce  resources  to  ensure  equitable,  affordable,  and  prompt  access  and  reliably  high-quality  care,  including  in  resource-constrained  and  developing  environments.The  care  of  the  critically  ill  extends  beyond  the  individual  patient  and  requires  systems  of  care  that  prioritize  patient/family  centeredness  with  a  focus  on  continuity  of  support  beyond  a  critical  illness  for  caregivers  of  chronically  and  critically  ill  patients  and  the  bereaved  families  and  communities  of  those  who  die  as  a  consequence  of  critical  illness.  Palliative  care  medicine  specialists  and  experts  in  behavioral  medicine  are  notable  enhancements  in  care  models.Critical  care  is  invigorated  by  a  scholarly  approach,  involving  learning  and  teaching  that  incorporates  impactful  adult  learning  theories  and  pedagogical  methods,  the  conduct  of  hypothesis-based  mechanistic,  clinical,  epidemiological,  and  qualitative  research,  and  the  dissemination  of  novel  findings  through  a  rigorous  peer-review  process.