Anesthesiology Critical Care – Our History Defines Our Future

Features| April 2024 Anesthesiology Critical Care – Our History Defines Our Future Shahla Siddiqui, MD, MS, FCCM; Shahla Siddiqui, MD, MS, FCCM Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ashish K. Khanna, MD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, FASA Ashish K. Khanna, MD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor April 2024, Vol. 88, 15. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001010656.81401.a4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Anesthesiology Critical Care – Our History Defines Our Future. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:15 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001010656.81401.a4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: care of intensive care unit patient As Vice Chair and Chair of the ASA Committee on Critical Care Medicine, we recognize the importance of new developments in this field and their propagation to the wider anesthesiology community. While writing this piece, where we proudly introduce our committee's contributions to this special issue on critical care medicine, we would like to take a minute to reflect on the history of the specialty and predict the future as best as we can. At the society's 2023 Critical Care Congress in San Francisco, California, Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc, delivered a plenary titled "From Polio to Present: How Epidemics have Shaped Critical Care." During her captivating talk, she narrated the true story of the polio epidemic in 1952 and how tracheostomies, iron lungs (modern day ventilators), and very rudimentary intensive care units first started in one overwhelmed hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. Bjørn Ibsen, a Danish anesthesiologist, was the first to... You do not currently have access to this content.