Key result
Cardiothoracic surgical critical care requires formal subspecialty recognition to address distinct perioperative knowledge gaps.
Why the study?
Anticipated escalation in cardiothoracic critical care unit utilization due to aging demographics and chronic disease necessitates assessing the discipline's current state and identifying knowledge gaps.
This review outlines aspirational goals, identifies knowledge gaps, and proposes a future scientific agenda for the subspecialty of cardiothoracic surgical critical care medicine.
May support subspecialty recognition in cardiothoracic surgical critical care; leaves open prospective validation of impact on outcomes.
Cardiothoracic surgical critical care medicine (CT-CCM) is a medical discipline centered on the perioperative care of diverse groups of patients. With an aging demographic and an increase in burden of chronic diseases the utilization of cardiothoracic surgical critical care units is likely to escalate in the coming decades. Given these projections, it is important to assess the state of cardiothoracic surgical intensive care, to develop goals and objectives for the future, and to identify knowledge gaps in need of scientific inquiry. This two-part review concentrates on CT-CCM as its own subspeciality of critical care and cardiothoracic surgery and provides aspirational goals for its practitioners and scientists. In part one, a list of guiding principles and a call-to-action agenda geared towards growth and promotion of CT-CCM are offered. In part two, an evaluation of selected scientific data is performed, identifying gaps in CT-CCM knowledge, and recommending direction to future scientific endeavors.
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Kopanczyk et al. (2022) conducted a review in Cardiothoracic surgical critical care. Cardiothoracic surgical critical care medicine requires recognition as a distinct subspecialty with dedicated scientific inquiry to address unique knowledge gaps in perioperative management.
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