The intensive care unit is a work environment where superior dedication is pivotal to optimize patients’ outcomes. As this demanding commitment is multidisciplinary in nature, it requires special qualities of health care workers and organizations. Thus research in the field covers a broad spectrum of activities necessary to deliver cutting-edge care. However, given the abundance of research articles and education activities available, it is difficult for modern critical care clinicians to keep up with the latest progress and innovations in the field. This article broadly summarizes new developments in multidisciplinary intensive care, providing elementary information about advanced insights in the field by briefly describing selected articles bundled in specific topics. Issues considered include cardiovascular care, monitoring, mechanical ventilation, infection and sepsis, nutrition, education, patient safety, pain assessment and control, delirium, mental health, ethics, and outcomes research.
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1 January 2014
Critical Care Research|
January 01 2014
Insights and Advances in Multidisciplinary Critical Care: A Review of Recent Research
Stijn Blot, MNSc, PhD;
Stijn Blot is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Ghent University, Belgium. Elsa Afonso is a research nurse and clinical trial coordinator, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain. Sonia Labeau is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work, University College Ghent, Belgium.
Corresponding author: Prof Dr Stijn Blot, Dept of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Elsa Afonso, RN, MSc;
Elsa Afonso, RN, MSc
Stijn Blot is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Ghent University, Belgium. Elsa Afonso is a research nurse and clinical trial coordinator, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain. Sonia Labeau is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work, University College Ghent, Belgium.
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Sonia Labeau, MNSc, PhD
Sonia Labeau, MNSc, PhD
Stijn Blot is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Ghent University, Belgium. Elsa Afonso is a research nurse and clinical trial coordinator, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain. Sonia Labeau is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work, University College Ghent, Belgium.
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Am J Crit Care (2014) 23 (1): 70–80.
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Stijn Blot, Elsa Afonso, Sonia Labeau; Insights and Advances in Multidisciplinary Critical Care: A Review of Recent Research. Am J Crit Care 1 January 2014; 23 (1): 70–80. doi: https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2014403
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