Four Decades of Intensive Care Unit Design Evolution and

Critical care clinics · Jul 2023

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Four Decades of Intensive Care Unit Design Evolution and Thoughts for the Future.

Intensive care unit (ICU) design has changed since the mid-1980s. Targeting timing and incorporation of the dynamic and evolutionary processes inherent in ICU design is not possible nationally. ICU design will continue evolving to incorporate new concepts of best design evidence and practice, better understandings of the needs of patients, visitors and staff, unremitting advances in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, ICU technologies and informatics, and the ongoing search to best fit ICUs within greater hospital complexes. As the ideal ICU remains a moving target; the design process should include the ability for an ICU to evolve into the future.

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- Neil A Halpern, Elizabeth Scruth, Michelle Rausen, and Diana Anderson.
- Critical Care Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, C-1179, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: halpernn@mskcc.org.
- Crit Care Clin. 2023 Jul 1; 39 (3): 577602577-602.
AbstractIntensive care unit (ICU) design has changed since the mid-1980s. Targeting timing and incorporation of the dynamic and evolutionary processes inherent in ICU design is not possible nationally. ICU design will continue evolving to incorporate new concepts of best design evidence and practice, better understandings of the needs of patients, visitors and staff, unremitting advances in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, ICU technologies and informatics, and the ongoing search to best fit ICUs within greater hospital complexes. As the ideal ICU remains a moving target; the design process should include the ability for an ICU to evolve into the future.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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