ReviewCritical care (London, England)2013
Critical care--where have we been and where are we going?
Review in Critical care (London, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Review of Mortality Risk Prediction Models in Smartphone Applications.Journal of medical systems · 2021Pooled it
- Application of a flexible visitation system in critically ill patients: A randomized clinical trial.Science progressTrial
- The Start of a Good Innings, 50 Years of Intensive Care Medicine.World journal of surgery · 2026Review
- Artificial intelligence in intensive care units: a scoping review addressing the translational gap to clinical practice.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2026Article
- The ICUPASS Study: Variability, Influencing Factors, and Clinician Stress in ICU Admission Decisions.Cureus · 2026Article
- Evolving Burn Care: The Transition from Life Preservation to Life Restoration-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Innovation, Technology, and Telemedicine in Critical Care.Critical care clinics · 2026Review
- The current situation of intensive care units in Chinese mainland: A nationwide survey.Journal of intensive medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical outcomes and factors associated with mortality among adults admitted to the intensive care unit at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: retrospective chart review.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Article
- A Reflection on Current Definitions of Critical Care and Critical Illness-A Narrative Review of the Literature.Nursing in critical care · 2026Review
- User Experience of a Bespoke Videoconferencing System for Web-Based Family Visitation for Patients in an Intensive Care Unit: 1-Year Cross-Sectional Survey of Nursing Staff.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Death by p-value: the overreliance on p-values in critical care research.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Review
- A national survey of Intensive Care Medicine Services in Portugal: where we are and the road ahead.Critical care science · 2025Article
- Challenges, obstacles, and unknowns in implementing principles of modern intensive care medicine in low-resource settings: an insider's perspective.Intensive care medicine · 2024Article
- Post-Mortem Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Perfusion Rat Model: A Feasibility Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Creating the ICU of the future: patient-centred design to optimise recovery.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Article
- Critical care capacity and care bundles on medical wards in Malawi: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- The burden of critical illness among adults in a Swedish region-a population-based point-prevalence study.European journal of medical research · 2023Article
- Critical care: A concept analysis.International journal of nursing sciences · 2023Review
- Do We Need an ICU for All Elective Postcraniotomy Patients? A Critical Appraisal.Critical care medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The first ICUs were established in the late 1950s and the specialty of critical care medicine began to develop. Since those early days, huge improvements have been made in terms of technological advances and understanding of the pathophysiology and pathogenesis of the disease processes that affect critically ill patients. Progress in therapeutics has been less dramatic, but process of care has improved steadily with important changes, including less iatrogenicity, better communication with patients and families, and improved teamwork, which have helped improve outcomes for ICU patients. Critical care medicine is one of the fastest-growing hospital specialties and, looking back, it is clear just how far we have come in such a relatively short period of time. With the ICU set to occupy an increasingly important place in hospitals worldwide, we must learn from the past and wisely embrace new developments in technology, therapeutics, and process, to ensure that the goals of critical care medicine are met in the future.
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