The Checklist & The ICU
"The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. Now survival is commonplace, and a large part of the credit goes to the irreplaceable component of medicine known as intensive care.If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it."The New Yorker, by Atul Gawande, 12/10/07.
Labels: Checklists, Hospitals, ICU, Infections, Intensive-Care Units, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Peter Pronovost, Sinai-Grace Hospital
posted by Ann Celestine @ 11:11 AM
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