Exclusieve Aanbieding Organisation & Management of Intensive Care – MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft OHG

The creation of units dedicated to treating critically ill patients is a recent development in our hospitals. In Europe, the first ”modern” ICU was established in Copenhagen during the large polio epidemics in 1951-52. Since then, the ICU and intensive care as a field of highly specialized medical competencies have developed side by side. The demand for ICU resources is likely to increase considerably in the coming decades, not least as a consequence of the ”age pandemic” that is rapidly changing (popul…