From the book reviews:
It presents the multidisciplinary development of the critical care model and a perspective on next steps in the evolution of critical care. Providers at any level are an appropriate audience for this work written by international experts from Western Europe and North America. ... This book is important for anyone seeking to understand the process and personnel important to the intensive care unit. (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2014)I - Organizing Intensive Care
Ch.1: Organizational Change in Critical Care: The Next Magic Bullet?
Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Damon C. Scales
Ch.2: Origins of the Critically iIll: The Impetus for Critical Care Medicine
Matthew Rosengart, Michael R. Pinsky
Ch.3: Intensivist and Alternative Models of ICU Staffing
Hayley B. Gershengorn, Allan Garland
Ch.4: Health Professionals in Critical Care
Timothy G. Buchman
Ch.5: Computers in Intensive Care
Stephen E. Lapinsky
Ch.6: Integrating Subspecialty Expertise in the Intensive Care Unit
Jason Katz
II - Improving Intensive Care
Ch.7: Quality Improvement in the Intensive Care Unit
Christopher Dale, J. Randall Curtis
Ch.8: Facilitating Interactions between Healthcare Providers in the ICU
Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral
Ch.9: Teamwork and Leadership in the Critical Care Unit
Tom W Reader, Brian H Cuthbertson
Ch. 10: Caring for ICU Providers
Ruth M. Kleinpell, Omar B. Lateef, Gourang P. Patel
III - Integrating Intensive Care
Ch. 11: Rationing without Contemplation: Why Attention to Patient Flow is Important and How to Make it Better
Michael Howell, Jennifer Stevens
Ch. 12: Rapid Response Systems
Ken Hillman, Jack Chen
Ch. 13: The Chronically Critically Ill
Shannon S. Carson, Kathleen Dalton
Ch. 14: Regionalization of Critical Care
Theodore J. Iwashyna, Jeremy M. Kahn
Ch. 15: International Perspectives on Critical Care
Hannah Wunsch
Ch. 16: Critical Care in Low-Resource Settings
Srinivas Murthy, Sadat A. Sayeed, Neil Adhikari
IV - Critical Care - Global and Future Perspectives
Ch. 17: Disaster Planning for the Intensive Care Unit: A Critical Framework
Daniel B. Jamieson, Lee Daugherty Biddison