Tag: intensive care unit

Staffing the unit – more questions than answers?

A number of articles in the last few months have focused on staffing structure in the ICU. Previously we’ve seen that ‘high intensity staffing‘  (a dedicated ICU team, or at least the obligatory consultation by one) reduces mortality, in the USA. However night-time intensivists don’t seem to do the same unless there’s a ‘low intensity’ …

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