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Admission/Discharge Criterion for Acute Care Surgery Patients in the ICU: A General Review of ICU Admission and Discharge Indications

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Surgical patients requiring intensive care unit [ICU] care originate from a variety of admitting primary services and may require critical care services at any time during their course of illness. This care spectrum can range from routine postoperative monitoring of complex cases to resuscitation to restore normal physiology and correct metabolic acidosis, hypothermia, and coagulopathy. This chapter will discuss admission and discharge criterion for acute care surgery patients in the ICU. Additional concepts to be discussed include the use of rapid response teams as an aid to ICU triage, ICU organization, frailty of patients in advanced age, clinical scoring systems, futility versus care that is appropriate for a given diagnosis, advanced directives, ICU economics, communication best practices, and family engagement. It is imperative that acute care surgeons practicing around the world, in hospital models with variable resources, understand these concepts to optimizing patient care.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical and Acute Care, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

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  2. Department of Surgery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Division of Trauma, Department of Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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  3. Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Tarek Razek

  4. Department of Surgery/ Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical and Acute Care, Weill Cornell Medicine/ New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

    Mayur Narayan

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    Jeffry L. Kashuk

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Narayan, M., Kashuk, J.L. (2019). Admission/Discharge Criterion for Acute Care Surgery Patients in the ICU: A General Review of ICU Admission and Discharge Indications. In: Picetti, E., Pereira, B., Razek, T., Narayan, M., Kashuk, J. (eds) Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11830-3_1

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