Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về y học đề tài: ICUs worldwide: Critical care in India. | Available online http content 6 6 479 Commentary ICUs worldwide Critical care in India Shirish Prayag Critical Care Centre Shree Medical Foundation Prayag Hospital Pune India Correspondence Shirish Prayag critical@ Published online 6 August 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 479-480 DOI cc1544 This article is online at http content 6 6 479 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Critical care practices in India have evolved significantly over the past decade. Critical care initially began as a service in major hospitals but with the formation of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine the development of this speciality has been very rapid. Regular conferences updates continuing medical education programmes and workshops have emerged and postdoctoral training programmes have been developed. Scientific publications have begun to appear and in spite of the diverse problems and standards meaningful speciality-related activities have begun. Future challenges include the development of guidelines the consolidation of training activities and research on the outcome of critical tropical problems. Keywords critical care India tropical medicine As in most other developing nations critical care medicine as a specialty has developed very slowly and only recently in India. The coronary care units were developed in the early to mid-1970s. Perhaps the main pioneer of the field of critical care in India was Farokh E Udwadia a brilliant physician with international training in pulmonology. In the mid 1970s Udwadia developed the first respiratory care units in the country in two hospitals in Mumbai - a community hospital and a private one. The most major achievement of these units was not only to bring down the mortality of tetanus but also to open the eyes of society to the need for critical care services. Organized critical care training or programmes did not materialize however and it was left to individual .
