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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Patients' profile admitted to the ICU after establishment of a regulatory policy system for ICU patient allocation at public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Authors:
R Goldwasser, S Oliveira, C David, M Oliveira, A Babo
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
The consolidation of intensive care fundamentals was accompanied by growth of ICUs and increased utilization of intensive care services. Unfortunately it was not followed by national health planning. The demographic changing profile with a higher number of elderly patients and a changing case mix with less trauma patient admissions, associated with the high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and the early approach to septic patients, will have implications on intensive care organization. A regulatory policy system for public ICUs was started in Rio de Janeiro to ensure appropriate selection and allocation of patients who need intensive care. The aim of this study is to report the profile of patients admitted to the ICU since the beginning of this new policy. …
