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This Issue's Focus: Perioperative Care


Cover Articles


Streamlining Perioperative Care


Michigan Begins Initiative to Improve ICUs


Thousands of Critical Care Professionals Plan Trip to Orlando



 
 

Features

 

Articles

Perioperative Optimizations May Improve
Postoperative Outcome

Evidence-based Medicine: An Industry Perspective


SCCM Member Receives High Honor

Pediatric Critical Care Research Part of NICHD's 40th Anniversary Celebration


American College of Critical Care Medicine Honors William A. Knaus, MD

Optimization of oxygen delivery and blood flow in the perioperative period may improve outcome inpostoperative patients. How does such optimization affect critically ill postoperative patients?
Emergency Department Interventions Improve Perioperative Care
Preoperative interventions and evaluation can help lessen the postoperative recovery time in acutely ill patients presented to the emergency department (ED) or in patients who acutely decompensate and require emergent surgery.

Departments

 

Message from the President: IIICU

Coding Corner: Global Confusion

Message from the CEO: Will They Follow in Your Footsteps?

Quality Corner: Improving the Intensivist Model: Success in Connecticut

Capitol Corner

Vital News

Career Central

Section and Chapter News

Communication Essential Ingredient in the
Pediatric ICU
Communication among intensivists, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses coupled with a team approach to the patient are essential ingredients to assuring optimum outcomes for postoperative pediatric patients.
 
Raising Critical Care Awareness
Although critical care continues to gain public attention, the average American still cannot explain the difference between an ICU and the emergency department. What can critical care professionals do to increase critical care awareness?
 
 
 

 
December 2003
- December 2003
- Message from the CEO
- Michigan Begins Initiative to Improve ICUs
- Thousands of Critical Care Professionals Plan Trip to Orlando
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