Organization of Critical Care

• Organizational Change in Critical Care: The Next Magic Bullet?.- Origins of the Critically Ill: The Impetus for Critical Care Medicine.- Intensivist and Alternative Models of ICU Staffing.- Health Professionals in Critical Care.- Computers in Intensive Care.- Integrating Subspecialty Expertise in the Intensive Care Unit.- Quality Improvement in the Intensive Care Unit.- Facilitating Interactions between Healthcare Providers in the ICU.- Teamwork and Leadership in the Critical Care Unit.- Caring for ICU Providers.- Rationing without Contemplation: Why Attention to Patient Flow is Important and How to Make it Better.- Rapid Response Systems.- The Chronically Critically Ill.- Regionalization of Critical Care.- International Perspectives on Critical Care.- Critical Care in Low–Resource Settings.- Disaster Planning for the Intensive Care Unit: A Critical Framework.

From the book reviews: "It presents the multidisciplinary development of the critical care model and a perspective on next steps in the evolution of critical care. Providers at any level are an appropriate audience for this work written by international experts from Western Europe and North America. ... This book is important for anyone seeking to understand the process and personnel important to the intensive care unit." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2014)