TY - JOUR
AU1 - Trask, Arthur L.
AU2 - Faber, Daniel R.
AB - Abstract • In the past 10 years, a number of authors have expressed concern that surgeons are abdicating their traditional role of providing preoperative and postoperative care in surgical intensive care units. To study today's private practice environment, we took a survey. Questionnaires were sent to the chiefs of surgery and the nurse managers of the surgical intensive care units at 188 non—university-affiliated hospitals throughout the United States. Results show that surgeons do not have the principal managing role in the intensive care unit for surgical patients in 70% to 75% of the hospitals. Results also indicated that surgeons are relinquishing their responsibilities in the direct care of the preoperative and postoperative critically ill patients. Three main reasons are given for this: (1) an ever-increasing body of critical care knowledge plus complex technology, (2) a lack of economic incentive, and (3) professional liability. To reverse this trend, these three areas must be addressed. (Arch Surg. 1990;125:1105-1108) References 1. Maloney JV. Itinerant surgery: at home and on the road . Ann Surg . 1984;200:115-116.Crossref 2. Kron IL, Kaiser DL, Nolan SP, Crosby IK, Mentzer RM, Rheuban K. Who manages the postoperative cardiac patient? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 1984;87:629-630. 3. Spencer RC, Skinner DB. The role of the surgeon in the intensive care unit . J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 1984;88:483-485. 4. Magovern GJ. The role of the thoracic surgeon in the intensive care unit . Ann Thorac Surg . 1984;38:309.Crossref 5. Greenbaum DM. Availability of critical care personnel, facilities, and services in the United States . Crit Care Med . 1984;12:1073-1077.Crossref 6. Machiedo GW, Blackwood JM, Rush BF. Practice of critical care medicine in academic surgical care centers . J Surg Res . 1981;30:223-228.Crossref 7. Preoperative and Postoperative Care Committee of the American College of Surgeons. The surgeon and intensive care . Am Coll Surg Bull . 1985;70:25-26. 8. Walt AJ. The training and role of the surgeon in the intensive care unit . Surg Clin North Am . 1985;65:753-762. 9. Hsiao WC, Braun P, Yntema D, Becker ER. Estimating physician's work for a resource-based relative-value scale . N Engl J Med . 1988;319:835-841.Crossref
TI - The Intensive Care Unit—Who's in Charge?: The Private Practice View
JF - Archives of Surgery
DO - 10.1001/archsurg.1990.01410210031003
DA - 1990-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/the-intensive-care-unit-who-s-in-charge-the-private-practice-view-TjcccGTOaS
SP - 1105
EP - 1108
VL - 125
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -