A Perspective in Critical Care Medicine: To Be a Mature Specialty We Must Move Our Focus Beyond Mortality

Over the last 60years, we have built a dynamic service that has saved the lives of millions of patients around the world. During this time our community has defeated polio epidemics, invented positive pressure ventilators and renal replacement therapy, learned to measure and image the function of the heart, and made the unsurvivable routine. Over the last 20years, we have become experts in conducting high-quality randomized controlled trials and basic scientific research, and we have demonstrated mortality benefits from improving the quality of our care and from working as multidisciplinary teams.
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research