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Critical Care Services: Scope of Practice

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Critical care services provide care, monitoring, and therapeutic interventions to patients with life-threatening conditions or injuries and complex multi-organ dysfunction in and beyond the intensive care unit (ICU) settings. The ICU is a complex organizational system. Improvement in performance and outcomes depends on the structure and processes of such systems. High-intensity staffing and closed ICU organizational models are associated with improved outcomes. A dedicated ICU physician-led multidisciplinary team that provides collaborative high-quality critical care, the use of evidence-based care and protocols, and multidisciplinary patient and family-centered ICU rounds are key elements for the provision of critical care to seriously ill patients.

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Zimmerman, J., Al-Saadi, M. (2020). Critical Care Services: Scope of Practice. In: Hidalgo, J., Pérez-Fernández, J., Rodríguez-Vega, G. (eds) Critical Care Administration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33808-4_1

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