Intensivist-Led Team Approach to Critical Care of Children With Heart Disease
2006; American Academy of Pediatrics; Volume: 117; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1542/peds.2006-0353
ISSN1098-4275
AutoresH Baden, Jerry J. Zimmerman, Richard J. Brilli, Hector R. Wong, Randall C. Wetzel, Jeffrey P. Burns, Vinay Nadkarni, Paul A. Checchia, Heidi J. Dalton, John Berger, Murray M. Pollack, Daniel A. Notterman, Thomas P. Green, Jeffrey L. Blumer, Michael Dean,
Tópico(s)Health and Medical Research Impacts
ResumoTo the Editor. We read with great interest the article “ACC/AHA/AAP Recommendations for Training in Pediatric Cardiology.”1 We would like to comment specifically on the section that described advanced training in pediatric cardiac critical care. The practice of high-quality postoperative pediatric cardiac intensive care requires a multidisciplinary collaboration between physicians (surgeon, cardiologist, intensivist) and other clinical disciplines including nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmacology, and nutrition support. Our comments are predicated on the well-established precept that all critically ill patients are best cared for by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians with the intensivist as the team leader or co-leader.2–5 On the basis of data demonstrating better outcomes and decreased costs, groups …
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