| Popis: |
The specialty of pediatric intensive care provides medical treatments for the most critically ill infants and children, most of whom will be mechanically ventilated. It therefore requires highly trained specialist staff. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your perspective – pediatric intensive care is a low volume, high cost service that cannot be provided in every locality. However, in the modern world, the ideal is that it should be available to all children who need it regardless of where they live [1]. The scope of this review will be to set the stage for 10 years from now – what are the issues in pediatric intensive care, and can we determine what will be required for infants and children of the future? |
