Critical by Matt Morgan

Author:Matt Morgan [Morgan, Matt Dr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471173059
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Through recognition of the challenges in medical research and human thinking, we can now celebrate the fact that intensive care has never been such a safe, successful and cost-effective service. You are almost twice as likely to survive today from sepsis – the main reason for admissions to the ICU – than fifteen years ago. The chances of you getting home following a cardiac arrest in the community are 25 per cent better today than just a decade ago. We can put oxygen directly into a failing heart and keep someone with no lung function alive for over a month. We can allow surgeons to carry out operations inconceivable in the past, including heart and face transplants. Every day we look at patients’ lungs using ultrasound, and place needles just a millimetre thick into blood vessels, organs and even into the brain. The world of intensive care is changing, just as the world of medicine is changing. The lungs will continue to be the open windows to the world but they need the fresh air of research and human-thinking improvements. Medicine is richer and patients better served as we embrace the benefits of these new research methods and insights into human critical thinking and we prioritise honest communication in difficult situations like those faced by Mervyn and Helen.

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