Edited by Martin J. Tobin. 1300 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1994. $139. ISBN 0-07-064943-X.
In the early 1950s, when poliomyelitis was again epidemic innorthern Europe and the United States, an anesthesiologist inCopenhagen, Denmark, named Ibsen did something that was routinefor him in the operating room but had never before been doneon a hospital ward. His simple act started the explosion inmedical technology that led to the development of intensivecare units and the specialty of critical care medicine. In 1952,Dr. Ibsen saw a 12-year-old girl with paralytic poliomyelitiswho was dying of respiratory failure in a tank ventilator. Heintubated her trachea with a cuffed tube and administered . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Previous
