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Social Media in Critical Care: Entering an Exciting New Era

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The way we communicate and learn has been revolutionized by technology such that we are never more than a phone call, message or text away from family, friends and colleagues. Mirroring this, social media is beginning to change the way that medicine is taught and practiced. It has the power to engage both healthcare professionals and members of the public with regards to health and policy discussions, networking and facilitating access to health information and services. In this chapter, we will discuss the way social media and free open access medical education impacts on the way we learn, teach and keep up to date with medicine.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK

    J. N. Wilkinson

  2. Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, King’s College Hospital, London, UK

    A. V. K. Wong

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Brussels University Hospital (UZB), Brussels, Belgium

    M. L. N. G. Malbrain

  4. Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

    M. L. N. G. Malbrain

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  1. Dept. of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent

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Wilkinson, J.N., Wong, A.V.K., Malbrain, M.L.N.G. (2019). Social Media in Critical Care: Entering an Exciting New Era. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2019. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06067-1_51

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