Articles: intensive-care-units.
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One of the major developments in health care has been the evolution of critical-care medicine. This concept* encompasses total care of patients from the initiation of an illness or injury, through all their sophisticated care, until the patient has either recovered or succumbed. The concept of critical-care medicine has actually evolved only over the past decade. ⋯ A multidisciplinary unit is described as one of four alternative approaches. Participants in such planning for this area of patient care must include physicians, nurses and technologists, architects, biomedical and clinical engineers, biomedical technologists, and all hospital department heads who might not necessarily be directly involved in this kind of patient care, but who do, in fact, participate in some fashion. Our obligation is obvious, and the need to familiarize all involved with this concept of patient care and its urgency are discussed.
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Four cases of Aspergillus pneumonia occurred in an intensive care unit within a short period. Clusters of cases of invasive aspergillosis are rare and have usually been attributed to excessive contamination of the environment. ⋯ Three of the cases were diagnosed ante mortem. One patient survived after early initiation of treatment with amphotericin B.
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Medical journal of Zambia · Oct 1977
Intensive care unit in the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka. A retrospective study for the year 1975.
A retrospective study was made of cases admitted to intensive care unit at U. T. ⋯ Head injury alone or in combination with other injuries was the commonest cause of admission and death. This study is hoped to help those who will work in the new intensive care unit and also to help those hoping to open similar units in Zambia.