Chronic critical illness - What is it and what can be done about it?

Affiliations

¹ General Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of Medical Intensive Care, Hadassah Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Editorial

Peter Vernon van Heerden et al. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;66(7):780-781.

doi: 10.1111/aas.14075. Epub 2022 May 10.

¹ General Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of Medical Intensive Care, Hadassah Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

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