Treating Critical Illness: The Importance of First Doing No Harm

2005/06/22 by Mervyn Singer, Paul Glynne · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment #Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders #Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes #Critical illness #Harm #Medicine #Psychological intervention #Intensive care medicine #Do no harm #Critically ill #Psychiatry #Psychology #Social psychology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020167

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Abstract

Singer and Glynne present evidence to suggest that the short- term benefits of many interventions for treating critical illness may camouflage an underlying tendency to cause harm.

Citations

• Executive summary of the guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute heart failure: The Task Force on Acute Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology

Cited by

• William Beatty (surgeon) [wikipedia]