ICU Inventor
ICU - Intensive Care Unit
What is an ICU?
An ICU is also known as ITU (intensive therapy unit) or Critical care unit (CCU). A patient who is not in an emergency case will need a doctor's reference to being admitted to an ICU. In the Intensive Care Unit, all the staff, doctors, physicians are highly trained and specialized in caring and treating critical patients. ICU is also used for general ward patients for the medical equipment not available anywhere else in the hospital. Patients who need to be monitored after a critical surgery are also shifted from operation theatre to ICU for special care.
History of ICU
In 1854, Florence Nightingale took care of the soldiers who were separated due to their critical conditions; she successfully decreased the mortality rates by nearly 38%. This is because of her sense of intensive care conditions in the hospital. Later, In 1950, Peter Safar established the life support system and special care for the patients. In 1960, the first Intensive Care Unit was established for cardiac patients in the United States of America.
What is the need for Intensive Care Unit?
The ICU is one of the very important needs of medical care. It is needed for all those patients who are suffering from one of the following reasons:
- The one who is facing difficulties by more than one organ.
- The one who is seriously ill and needs close monitoring by the doctor or medical staff.
- Someone who went through a serious accident and has head injuries or severe injuries somewhere in your body. Maybe a serious fall or severe burn injuries.
- A really serious short-term condition like a heart attack or heat stroke.
- A serious infection like pneumonia or severe sepsis.
- The one who needs a major surgery (they are specially kept for measuring the recovery or just for security if there may be any complication later).
- Intensive care unit · Inventor
Bjørn Aage Ibsen (August 30, 1915 – August 7, 2007) was a Danish anesthetist and founder of intensive-care medicine.[1] He graduated in 1940 from medical school at the University of Copenhagen and trained in anesthesiology from 1949 to 1950 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He became involved in the 1952 poliomyelitis outbreak in Denmark, where 2722 patients developed the illness in a 6-month period[2] with 316 suffering respiratory or airway paralysis. Treatment had involved the use of the few negative pressure ventilators available, but these devices, while helpful, were limited and did not protect against aspiration of secretions. After detecting high levels of CO2 in blood samples and inside a little boy's lung,[3] Ibsen changed management directly. He instituted protracted positive pressure ventilation by means of intubation into the trachea, and enlisting 200 medical students to manually pump oxygen and air into the patients lungs. In this fashion, mortality declined from 90% to around 25%. Patients were managed in three special 35 bed areas, which aided charting and other management.
In 1953, Ibsen set up the world's first medical/surgical ICU in a converted student nurse classroom in Kommunehospitalet (The Municipal Hospital) in Copenhagen, and provided one of the first accounts of the management of tetanus with muscle relaxants and controlled ventilation. In 1954 Ibsen was elected head of the department of anaesthesiology at that institution. He jointly authored the first known account of ICU management principles in Nordisk Medicin, September 18, 1958: ‘Arbejdet på en Anæsthesiologisk Observationsafdeling’ (‘The Work in an Anaesthesiologic Observation Unit’) with Tone Dahl Kvittingen from Norway.[4]
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