Who benefits from postoperative ICU admissions?-more research is needed

Chi-Min Park^{1

2}, Gee Young Suh^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
² Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Editorial

Chi-Min Park et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jun.

. 2018 Jun;10(Suppl 17):S2055-S2056.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.05.156.

Chi-Min Park^{1

2}, Gee Young Suh^{1

3}

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
² Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries.
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