2018, Number 4
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An Med Asoc Med Hosp ABC 2018; 63 (4)
The source of critical care
Elizalde GJJ
Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 306 - 311
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ABSTRACT
Between the group de medical specialties, Critical Care is still young, in spite of this not too much is discused about his history. Many are the actors that claim being the first in organizing their Intensive Care Unit, and it is difficult to exactly assure who has the honor. It is maybe more important to consider that it was a kind of movement started in developed countries that became global in the next two decades, being the Mexican medicine an early and important representative in that current. Although it is generally considered the Danish management of the polio epidemias in the fifties as the birth of this discipline, it was Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursery who during de Crimea war between 1853 and 1856, had the original idea to concentrate in one specific place the critically injured to optimize their observation and monitoring, one of the key issues for the flourishment of Critical Care, discipline that has got an enormous development across time, having yet its own body of knowledge and being a robust medical specialty that marks a difference and distinguishes health institutions.
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