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The Integration of Emergency Care in a Total Critical Care Medicine (CCM) System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Herman H. Delooz
Herman H. Delooz
Affiliation:
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, CatholicUniversity of Leuven, Belgium.
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The goal of critical care medicine is to provide specific care to the patient in whom one or more vital systems are threatened or deficient. The methods of critical care medicine are monitoring, support or temporary substitution of vital systems, and the application of titrated therapy. The specific objective of each link in the chain of medical facilities involved with the critical patient deserves to provide the same expertise and should act according to the same protocol.

The different links of the chain are these: (l)recognition of the critical condition; (2) emergency call; (3) care on the spot of the emergency; (4) care during transport; (5) further diagnostic and therapeutic work in the emergency department; and finally (6) if indicated, continued intensive care.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 129 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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