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unusual facts about Critical care


Post-intensive care syndrome

Critical care experts are only beginning to understand the impact of critical illness and intensive care on survivors' health.



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BJC HealthCare

The current facility houses the Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center, which is a 52,000-square-foot, 61-bed Level I trauma center that includes two full-body CT scanners and six trauma/critical care rooms.

Bob Kempainen

Currently, Dr. Kempainen holds a position at Hennepin County Medical Center where he practices as a pulmonologist and critical care physician, he is also the current course director of Human Disease 1, a second year medical school course at the University of Minnesota.

ICU Medical

ICU Medical acquired the former Abbott Laboratories Critical Care business from Hospira in 2009 following a four year business arrangement in which ICU acted as the manufacturer of the Hospira critical care product line.

Jonathan Asbridge

He began his career as a staff nurse and charge nurse in critical care, then senior nurse an in-patient manager at Singleton Hospital in 1983 before moving to Addenbrooke's Hospital where, after a period as general manager, he moved into a role of corporate responsibility as director of clinical care service.

Kathy Augustine

Higgs, a critical care nurse, allegedly made suspicious remarks to a co-worker about how to kill someone undetectably using succinylcholine.

Medical Australia Limited

It supplies over 140 products to public and private hospitals and critical care services worldwide, including: Burettes Sets, Extension Sets, Intravenous Sets, Irrigation Sets, Transfusion Sets and TUTA Hand Pump Sets.

Paula Ferrada

She trained for one more year in Trauma and Critical care at the University of Pittsburgh, and then joined the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center as their first Acute Care Surgery Fellow.

Richard Dooling

Dooling's first novel, Critical Care (1992), was made into a 1997 movie of the same title, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader and Kyra Sedgwick.

Sccm

Society of Critical Care Medicine, the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.

Sheffield Children's Hospital

SC(NHS)FT also runs Embrace, a regional combined children's and neonatal critical care transport service.

West Midlands CARE Team

Working in teams alongside West Midlands Ambulance Service, volunteer doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals deliver enhanced critical care to seriously injured and unwell patients.