The intensive care unit is a work environment where superior dedication is crucial for optimizing 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 numerous research articles and education activities available, it is difficult for modern critical care clinicians to keep up with the latest progress and innovation in the field. This article broadly summarizes new developments in multidisciplinary intensive care. It provides elementary information about advanced insights in the field via brief descriptions of selected articles grouped by specific topics. Issues considered include care for heart patients, mechanical ventilation, delirium, nutrition, pressure ulcers, early mobility, infection prevention, transplantation and organ donation, care for caregivers, and family matters.
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1 January 2015
Critical Care Research|
January 01 2015
Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Critical Care
Stijn Blot, MNSc, PhD;
Stijn Blot is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Ghent University, Belgium and the Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Elsa Afonso is a staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom. 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 and the Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Elsa Afonso is a staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom. 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 and the Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Elsa Afonso is a staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom. 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 (2015) 24 (1): 75–86.
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Stijn Blot, Elsa Afonso, Sonia Labeau; Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Critical Care. Am J Crit Care 1 January 2015; 24 (1): 75–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2015321
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