Key result
Intensive-care units expanded from recovery rooms to treat acute myocardial infarction and urgent medical conditions.
Why the study?
The evolution and expanding indications for intensive-care units in cardiology and other urgent medical conditions motivated a review of who needs ICU care.
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Early ICU expansion beyond MI was associated with arrhythmia monitoring; leaves open optimal contemporary ICU admission criteria.
Arnold S. Relman (1980) conducted an editorial in Critical illness. Intensive-care units was evaluated. Intensive-care units originated as postoperative recovery rooms and rapidly expanded to manage acute myocardial infarction, serious arrhythmias, and other urgent medical conditions.
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