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Breast Surgery

Tuesday 23 March 2010

The effect of multidisciplinary care teams on intensive care unit mortality

The effect of multidisciplinary care teams on intensive care unit mortality. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2010; Vol. 170(4), pages 369-376.

Kim, M.M. et al.

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/170/4/369?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Michelle%2BM.%2BKim&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

Critically ill patients are medically complex and may benefit from a multidisciplinary approach to care. Daily rounds by a multidisciplinary team are associated with lower mortality among medical ICU patients. The survival benefit of intensivist physician staffing is in part explained by the presence of multidisciplinary teams in high-intensity physician-staffed ICUs.

Hypoglycemia in the critically ill: how low is too low?

Hypoglycemia in the critically ill: how low is too low? Mayo clinic proceedings, March 2010, Vol. 85(3), p. 215-216.

Krinsley, J.S.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/85/3/215.full

Tight glycemic control in critically ill patients became a therapeutic paradigm after the 2001 publication of a landmark single-center interventional trial in Leuven, Belgium, (ie, “Leuven 1”) that targeted euglycemia in a population of mechanically ventilated patients in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU).