520© Royal College of Physicians, 2011. All rights reserved. to excellence. 12 Key
components include life-long reflective learning, research and audit, the development of …

After the tsunami caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic [1],
Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) has returned to “normal” life, as most medical journals did …

The future of intensive care medicine Page 1 The ANZCA Bulletin June 2009 81 This is an
edited extract of the JFICM Graduation Ceremony Oration “The Future of Intensive Care …

Objective: Quality improvement is an important activity for all members of the
interdisciplinary critical care team. Although an increasing number of resources are …

Intensive care patients are the most critically ill in any hospital and they are a patient group
that utilises a disproportionate amount of medical resources. Intensive care medicine …

Intensive care medical training, whether as a primary specialty or as secondary addon
training, should include key competences to ensure a uniform standard of care, and the …

There is general consensus that standard medical textbooks can provide an excellent
knowledge base but cannot substitute for experience. This does little to help those junior …

One of the criticisms of the first edition was the underrepresentation of authors from smaller
units and the devolved nations; we have addressed this in the second edition, recognising …

Doctors and nurses share the same goals for patient care. We are at our best when we
function as a part of a multidisciplinary team, with individual team members contributing the …

This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive care for the non-specialist,
providing the core knowledge and principles of intensive care patient management. From …