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As medicine has advanced over the past 50 years, the need for high-quality, cost-effective critical care services has expanded exponentially. In the USA, one recent estimate was that five million patients are admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) every year, leading to 23 million ICU bed days [1]. The cost of managing these patients typically accounts for a large percentage of hospital costs.

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  1. Surgical Intensive Care Unit, RA Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Samuel A. Tisherman MD, FACS, FCCM

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  1. Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Emergency Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Niels D. Martin

  2. Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Emergency Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Lewis J. Kaplan

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Tisherman, S.A. (2016). Administration. In: Martin, N.D., Kaplan, L.J. (eds) Principles of Adult Surgical Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33341-0_40

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