Recently published papers: choose well, treat well, get well – which matters most?
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* Corresponding author: Justin Kirk-Bayley jkb@orange.net
1 Specialist Registrar, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, UK
2 Consultant, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Worthing Hospital, West Sussex, UK
Critical Care 2004, 8:91-92 doi:10.1186/cc2839
Published: 1 March 2004First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Choice underpins everything we do as critical care clinicians. We choose whether to treat, when to treat and how to treat from an ever-increasing selection of alternatives, and whether to afford the costs associated with the decisions we have made. Some recent articles have looked at how one chooses to ventilate patients (noninvasively or not), how to deal with and avoid ventilator-acquired pneumonia, and which regimens of antibiotics to use and how it affects outcome. It is these articles on which we shall focus.