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Article: Critical Care Plus: Asking the Critical Question: Who Should Manage ICU Patients?
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- Critical Care Alert
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- October 1, 2001
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Critical Care Plus
Asking the Critical Question: Who Should Manage ICU Patients?
Answers vary and feelings run high, but the query may be moot
By Julie Crawshaw, CRC Plus Editor
Should any physician with hospital privileges be able to admit and manage patients in the icu? or should ICU patients be under the care of an intensivist team regardless of who manages them outside the unit?
These questions continue to concern intensivists and others who work in ICUs. Answers vary widely and feelings behind them run high.
Maurene Harvey, RN, and president-elect of the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), has been a ...