TY - JOUR
AU1 - Morgan, M.
AB - Modern intensive care medicine has recently become a senior citizen. Happy 70th birthday. Born out of necessity, innovation and hope during the Copenhagen polio epidemic of 1952 [1], we have come a long way. Those early decades brought machines that could breathe when patients could not. Soon arrived blood gas monitoring exported from the Danish brewing industry, especially the Carlsberg factory in Copenhagen. Dedicated ‘shock wards’ subsequently opened in California, centralising the care of patients who were critically ill before arrival of the first microprocessor‐controlled ventilators. The next 20 years flourished with implementation of multidisciplinary teams and development of scoring systems to objectify risk and outcomes. We then entered the era of multiple‐organ support, doing amazing things, with amazing numbers of different drugs, machines and invasive procedures. Driven by rigorous evidence‐based medicine over the last 20 years, the clinical pendulum has swung from doing everything possible to now doing everything necessary. As we peer towards our centenary, the promise of personalised medicine, expanded point‐of‐care diagnostics and increased focus on patient‐centred long‐term functional outcomes will bring the age of doing what is right for the individual.But knowing what the right thing to do, even at a population level, is difficult. As many as 9 out of 
TI - Intensive care 2.0
JF - Anaesthesia
DO - 10.1111/anae.15954
DA - 2023-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/intensive-care-2-0-85BDUIo2Dq
SP - 413
EP - 415
VL - 78
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -