Dr. Li Bassi has received grant support/payment for lectures from Covidien Ltd, and has
received royalties from the NIH. He has received reimbursement for travel from Covidien. Dr …

Dear Editor, Over the last decades intensive care medicine (ICM) has written a story of
success that could not have been foreseen at its birth in the 1950s. Despite an increasing …

However, aging populations (1), workforce shortages (2, 3), and rising costs (4) of intensive
care are creating a demand for urgent structural change of intensive care services by …

Reports on the rapidly increasing cost of health care are now commonplace in the medical
literature. Total per capital health care expenditures have increased 560 percent since 1980 …

Whatever the tools used, any reflection on clinical research must bring us to humility. Indeed,
the study results often vary from one study to another, providing contradictory evidence that …

Healthcare expenditures in the United States exceed $2.4 trillion (1). Nearly one-third of
healthcare costs can be attributed to overtreatment and unwanted treatment (2). The …

Current practices in the US health care industry drive climate change. This review
summarizes the vast research on the negative health effects of the climate crisis on patients …

In 2018, we reported (1) on changes in temperature management and associated outcomes
for cardiac arrest patients admitted to Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) ICUs following …

During the first years of intensive care medicine, many of its treatments were introduced
because they were thought to be beneficial to patients, despite there being a lack of …

Climate change, now the foremost global health hazard, poses multifaceted challenges to
human health. This editorial elucidates the extensive impact of climate change on health …