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 ngành y học đề tài: Research ethics in the intensive care unit: current and future challenges. | Available online http content 8 2 71 Editorial Research ethics in the intensive care unit current and future challenges Laura Hawryluck Assistant Professor Critical Care Medicine University Health Network University of Toronto Canada Correspondence Laura Hawryluck Published online 12 January 2004 Critical Care 2004 8 71-72 DOI cc2419 This article is online at http content 8 2 71 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Critical Care is launching a new section to the website Critical Care Forum in which several articles relating to a specific theme will be pulled together under the title Theme series. With this new section we aim to produce a series of articles that will provide substantial coverage of several topics relating to important themes within the intensive care environment. We are hoping this will raise awareness of the topics covered and provide a platform for discussion related to each theme. Research ethics is an important even central theme in this series. Since the recognition of critical care medicine 40 years ago concentrated research efforts have enabled us to save lives we would have otherwise lost and to improve the quality of these lives saved. At the crossroads of medical and surgical fields at the forefront of technology with its capacity for extensive haemodynamic and clinical monitoring the intensive care unit ICU remains an ideal place to explore the effects of novel therapeutics and innovative technologies. While research has provided important guidance and breakthroughs ICU teams still confront many unknowns when caring for critically ill patients. In order to function effectively ICU teams have had to achieve a level of comfort in facing these unknowns. As a consequence they have also achieved a level of comfort regarding the risk benefit ratios of various research endeavours and they welcome research to improve morbidity mortality and the quality of .
