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).