Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A physician who specializes in providing care to critically ill patients, especially those in an intensive care or coronary care unit.
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- adjective medicine Of or pertaining to
intensive care - noun medicine A practitioner of
intensive care
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Examples
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But there are only about 6,000 board certified "intensivist" doctors--far short of the number needed to meet the demand using existing technology.
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The goal of the team, which includes an intensivist, a critical-care fellow and a nurse, is to intervene early and prevent cardiac arrests.
Critical (Re)thinking Melinda Beck 2011
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To schedule a hospital to hospital transfer, call 215-590-2644 and ask to speak to the cardiac intensivist on call.
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Only 46% of U.S. hospitals have a board-certified intensivist available round the clock.
Critical (Re)thinking Melinda Beck 2011
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A drug I have prescribed with due respect in the critical care arena when I was a practicing intensivist, propofol was a wonderful tool to induce sedation and facilitate difficult procedures which my patients needed.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland 2010
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A drug I have prescribed with due respect in the critical care arena when I was a practicing intensivist, propofol was a wonderful tool to induce sedation and facilitate difficult procedures which my patients needed.
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A drug I have prescribed with due respect in the critical care arena when I was a practicing intensivist, propofol was a wonderful tool to induce sedation and facilitate difficult procedures which my patients needed.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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And my first e-mail today was a neuro-intensivist (ph) who I know who e-mailed me and said, "Man, next time, I'm definitely wearing a helmet."
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Much has been said about this excellent New Yorker article on checklists in medicine, by Atul Gawande, in which he talks with two checklist gurus -- intensivist Peter Pronovost from Hopkins he wrote the Tintinalli chapter on ABG interpretation and Markus Thalmann, an Austrian surgeon who led some truly incredible hypothermia arrest resuscitations.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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What's more, to improve communication between day and night shifts, day staffers do rounds each evening with the oncoming intensivist, nurses and respiratory therapist.
Hospitals Move 2008
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