Heidi L. Frankel ● Bennett P. deBoisblanc
Editors

2010

Since the establishment of the first intensive care unit (ICU) in 1953 by Danish anesthesiologist Bjorn Ibsen at Copenhagen’s university hospital, critical care medicine has evolved from a specialty focused primarily on mechanical ventilation of polio patients into a complex multidisciplinary specialty that provides care for a broad range of life-threatening medical and surgical problems.