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ReviewWorld journal of critical care medicine2015

Intensive care organisation: Should there be a separate intensive care unit for critically injured patients?

Tim K Timmers, Michiel Hj Verhofstad, Luke Ph Leenen

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Review in World journal of critical care medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. What trauma patients need: the European dilemma.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2024
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  2. The evolution of trauma care in the Netherlands over 20 years.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Tim K TimmersTim K Timmers, Luke PH Leenen, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Michiel Hj VerhofstadTim K Timmers, Luke PH Leenen, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Luke Ph LeenenTim K Timmers, Luke PH Leenen, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last two decennia, the mixed population general intensive care unit (ICU) with a "closed format" setting has gained in favour compared to the specialized critical care units with an "open format" setting. However, there are still questions whether surgical patients benefit from a general mixed ICU. Trauma is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Major or severe trauma requiring immediate surgical intervention and/or intensive care treatment. The role and type of the ICU has received very little attention in the literature when analyzing outcomes from critical injuries. Severely injured patients require the years of experience in complex trauma care that only a surgery/trauma ICU can provide. Should a trauma center have the capability of a separate specialized ICU for trauma patients ("closed format") next to its standard general mixed ICU.

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Critical careIntensive care medicineIntensive trauma careTraumaTrauma intensive care

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PMID26261775
PMCPMC4524820

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