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Pre-ICU Factors

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Surviving Intensive Care

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 39))

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Abstract

In the modern hospital, the intensive care unit (ICU) plays a small but very important part in the continuum of care. Although the majority of patients do not need ICU admission, a small but significant percentage (about 5 % in most series) will be admitted to the ICU as part of their overall care. Time spent in the ICU represents the investment of a significant portion of community resources in hospital care [1].

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  1. Dept of Intensive Care, Hospital de St. Antonio dos Capuchos, Alameda de St. Antonio dos Capuchos, 1150, Lisbon, Portugal

    R. Moreno (Staff Intensivist) & R. Matos (Staff Intensivist)

  2. Dept of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    P.G.K Metnitz (Professor)

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  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

    Derek C. Angus MD, MPH, FCCM, FCCP (Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research) (Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research)

  2. Anaesthesiology and Emergency Department, Fondation Hôpital St Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75674, Paris Cedex 14, France

    Jean Carlet MD (Head of the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator of the Intensive Care) (Head of the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator of the Intensive Care)

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Moreno, R., Matos, R., Metnitz, P. (2003). Pre-ICU Factors. In: Angus, D.C., Carlet, J. (eds) Surviving Intensive Care. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55733-0_9

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