Recently, it has been widely used to investigate East Asia' contribution to the world body in several medical fields.4-6 However, to our knowledge, the quantity and quality of East Asian research production in
critical care medicine have not been reported.
There is no doubt that more studies focusing on
critical care medicine in Puerto Rico need to be undertaken.
Author affiliation: Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine, Norwich,
In addition to these methodological differences, there are various design preferences: only 13% of the
critical care medicine trials are clinical controlled trials, while in anesthesiology, 30% of the trials accomplished are clinical controlled trials.
In 2013 it will be our turn to host the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and
Critical Care Medicine Congress together with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies and World Federation of Critical Care Nurses gatherings.
Their research appeared yesterday in the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine.
Intensivists are board-certified physicians who are additionally certified in the subspecialty of
critical care medicine.
Mheta S et al (1997)
Critical Care Medicine 25: 620-628.
Society of
Critical Care Medicine eNewsletter (Dec.
The study, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine, used a finger sensor to measure changes in the microvascular function (MVF) of more than 40 non-smokers ages 60 to 75, after high efficiency particle air (HEPA) filters were installed in their homes.
The authors of
Critical Care Medicine: Just the Facts are all from North America, mostly from Chicago.
But COPD is different in women than in men, according to a study in the December issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine. COPD manifests as emphysema, an abnormality in lung tissue; chronic bronchitis; or an obstruction of the airways.
