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Critical care clinics · Jul 2002
Multidisciplinary care of the obese patient with chronic critical illness after surgery.
- Stanley A Nasraway, Therese M Hudson-Jinks, and Ruth M Kelleher.
- Department of Nursing and Surgery, New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Box 4630, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Snasraway@lifespan.org
- Crit Care Clin. 2002 Jul 1; 18 (3): 643-57.
AbstractThe surgical patient with prolonged critical illness usually has a higher severity of illness on ICU admission, and is destined for greater morbidity, debilitation, and poorer hospital and long-term survival. Care of those with obesity is particularly difficult. Only with meticulous attention to detail and refined, dedicated, multidisciplinary processes of care, preferably assisted by protocolization, can these patients sustain any hope of recovery to acceptable functionality.
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