Abstract
The comprehensive approach to the critical patient has evolved by leaps and bounds in the last 20 years. From the “creation” of intensive care units (ICUs) in the 1950s, in the midst of the polio epidemic, until the 2000s, when evidence began to emerge that survivors of critical illness did so with a high burden of sequelae, many of which were preventable.
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