The Globe & Mail has a new series of articles, videos, and interactive media explaining the nature and challenges of critical care. The reporters had been based in Sunnybrook ICU for two months.Saturday, November 26, 2011
Primer on Critical Care - in the Globe & Mail
The Globe & Mail has a new series of articles, videos, and interactive media explaining the nature and challenges of critical care. The reporters had been based in Sunnybrook ICU for two months.
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Nice series. Most people really have no idea what goes on inside an ICU. The most interesting thing to me, after 30 years of ICU practice, is that the high-tech image of an ICU is really a false picture; at root, it's quite low-tech. What we mostly do is support a patient while waiting for them to heal or not heal. The discussions we have with families about life and death are (or should be) also quite low-tech.
The ICU is family practice with lots of gadgets, the role of which are secondary. Don't let the gadgets obscure the fact that it's still family practice.
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