TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced Technologies in Trauma Critical Care Management
AU - Cannon, Jeremy W.
AU - Chung, Kevin K.
AU - King, David R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the Defense Medical Research and Development Program .
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - Care of critically injured patients has evolved over the 50 years since Shoemaker established one of the first trauma units at Cook County Hospital in 1962. Modern trauma intensive care units offer a high nurse-to-patient ratio, physicians and midlevel providers who manage the patients, and technologically advanced monitors and therapeutic devices designed to optimize the care of patients. This article describes advances that have transformed trauma critical care, including bedside ultrasonography, novel patient monitoring techniques, extracorporeal support, and negative pressure dressings. It also discusses how to evaluate the safety and efficacy of future advances in trauma critical care.
AB - Care of critically injured patients has evolved over the 50 years since Shoemaker established one of the first trauma units at Cook County Hospital in 1962. Modern trauma intensive care units offer a high nurse-to-patient ratio, physicians and midlevel providers who manage the patients, and technologically advanced monitors and therapeutic devices designed to optimize the care of patients. This article describes advances that have transformed trauma critical care, including bedside ultrasonography, novel patient monitoring techniques, extracorporeal support, and negative pressure dressings. It also discusses how to evaluate the safety and efficacy of future advances in trauma critical care.
KW - Extracorporeal therapy
KW - Hemodynamic monitoring
KW - Innovation
KW - Trauma critical care
KW - Ultrasound
KW - Wound management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864339407&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.suc.2012.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.suc.2012.04.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 22850154
AN - SCOPUS:84864339407
SN - 0039-6109
VL - 92
SP - 903
EP - 923
JO - Surgical Clinics of North America
JF - Surgical Clinics of North America
IS - 4
ER -