Continuous Dual Oximetry in Surgical Critical Care

Advances in Surgical Critical Care

ith an aging population and an increased demand from the public to are for extreme medical conditions, admissions to the intensive care unit ICU) have increased. A total of 87,400 ICU beds in the United States ccept 4.4 million ICU admissions annually. Despite these numbers epresenting a 26.2% increase in beds over the previous 15 years, access o the ICU has been more difficult due to a combina...

Surgical critical care

Surgicalcriticalcare.net is a website maintained by the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program at Orlando Regional Medical Center. It is directed at any member of the health care field who is interested in surgical critical care, from medical students to intensivists to allied health professionals. In keeping with this aim, its content is both administrative and educational. This report focu...

Surgical critical care.

e c e c o begin a fellowship in surgical critical care, residents ust have completed at least 3 years of a general surgery esidency and have a guaranteed, categorical, surgical spot n which to complete their last years of general surgery raining. However, the majority of fellows choose to comlete their entire general surgery residency before beginning fellowship. This order of training is recom...

Critical Care for Surgical Patients

In the first section respiratory failure and management is described in a most lucid and readable style. This is followed by a section on circulatory crises in which monitoring is clearly explained and such mysteries as the Swan Ganz catheter are unveiled. Fluid balance is well handled but this is followed by a very weak chapter on the acute abdomen. It is difficult to see why Mittelschmerz, he...

Continuous EEG Monitoring in Critical Care