The Organization of Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality

ISBN-13: 9781493908103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 284 str.

Gordon D. Rubenfeld; Damon C. Scales

Opis

The origin of modern intensive care units (ICUs) has frequently been attributed to the widespread provision of mechanical ventilation within dedicated hospital areas during the 1952 Copenhagen polio epidemic. However, modern ICUs have developed to treat or monitor patients who have any severe, life-threatening disease or injury. These patients receive specialized care and vital organ assistance such as mechanical ventilation, cardiovascular support, or hemodialysis. ICU patients now typically occupy approximately 10% of inpatient acute care beds, yet the structure and organization of these ICUs can be quite different across hospitals. In The Organization of Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality, leaders provide a concise, evidence-based review of ICU organizational factors that have been associated with improved patient (or other) outcomes. The topics covered are grouped according to four broad domains: (1) the organization, structure, and staffing of an ICU; (2) organizational approaches to improving quality of care in an ICU; (3) integrating ICU care with other healthcare provided within the hospital and across the broader healthcare system; and (4) international perspectives on critical care delivery. Each chapter summarizes a different aspect of ICU organization and targets individual clinicians and healthcare decision makers. A long overdue contribution to the field, The Organization of Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality is an indispensable guide for all clinicians and health administrators concerned with achieving state-of-the-art outcomes for intensive care.

Recenzje

From the book reviews:

"It presents the multidisciplinary development of the critical care model and a perspective on next steps in the evolution of critical care. Providers at any level are an appropriate audience for this work written by international experts from Western Europe and North America. ... This book is important for anyone seeking to understand the process and personnel important to the intensive care unit." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2014)

Spis treści

I - Organizing Intensive Care

 

Ch.1: Organizational Change in Critical Care: The Next Magic Bullet?

            Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Damon C. Scales

 

Ch.2: Origins of the Critically iIll: The Impetus for Critical Care Medicine

            Matthew Rosengart, Michael R. Pinsky

 

Ch.3: Intensivist and Alternative Models of ICU Staffing               

            Hayley B. Gershengorn, Allan Garland

 

Ch.4: Health Professionals in Critical Care

            Timothy G. Buchman

 

Ch.5: Computers in Intensive Care                

            Stephen E. Lapinsky

 

Ch.6: Integrating Subspecialty Expertise in the Intensive Care Unit

            Jason Katz

 

II - Improving Intensive Care

 

Ch.7: Quality Improvement in the Intensive Care Unit

            Christopher Dale, J. Randall Curtis

 

Ch.8: Facilitating Interactions between Healthcare Providers in the ICU

            Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral

 

Ch.9: Teamwork and Leadership in the Critical Care Unit

            Tom W Reader, Brian H Cuthbertson

 

Ch. 10: Caring for ICU Providers

            Ruth M. Kleinpell, Omar B. Lateef, Gourang P. Patel

 

III - Integrating Intensive Care

 

Ch. 11: Rationing without Contemplation: Why Attention to Patient Flow is Important and How to Make it Better

            Michael Howell, Jennifer Stevens

 

Ch. 12: Rapid Response Systems

            Ken Hillman, Jack Chen

 

Ch. 13: The Chronically Critically Ill

            Shannon S. Carson, Kathleen Dalton

 

Ch. 14: Regionalization of Critical Care

            Theodore J. Iwashyna, Jeremy M. Kahn

 

Ch. 15: International Perspectives on Critical Care

            Hannah Wunsch

 

Ch. 16: Critical Care in Low–Resource Settings

            Srinivas Murthy, Sadat A. Sayeed, Neil Adhikari

 

IV - Critical Care - Global and Future Perspectives

 

Ch. 17: Disaster Planning for the Intensive Care Unit: A Critical Framework

            Daniel B. Jamieson, Lee Daugherty Biddison