Articles: critical-care.
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A method of care applicable to all forms of critical illness is presented. A patient is considered to be critically ill when he is threatened with hypoxia. ⋯ The relevant physiology and monitoring of the components of the oxygenating system are described. The treatment of patients with impaired function of these components is described.
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Delivery of the most up-to-date trauma care requires a well-trained team of four physicians and four nurses to carry out the initial management of a single major injury patient (Border et al, 1975). Ventilatory insufficiency, circulatory insufficiency, and wounds must all be treated promptly and simultaneously.
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The four-year program for training physicians in critical care-emergency medicine at Sacramento Medical Center, University of California, Davis School of Medicine is described. Its purpose is to train the physician in resuscitation, emergency care for life-threatening conditions, and intensive care, so that the graduate can staff community hospital emergency departments and intensive care units, be director of an emergency department or intensive care unit, or pursue an academic career in emergency medicine.