The Future of Critical Care: Optimizing Technologies and a Learning Healthcare System to Potentiate a More Humanistic Approach to Critical Care

Heather Meissen, Michelle Ng Gong, An Kwok Ian Wong, Jerry J. Zimmerman, Nalini Nadkarni, Sandra L. Kane-Gil, Javier Amador-Castaneda, Heatherlee Bailey, Samuel M. Brown, Ashley D. Depriest, Ifeoma Mary Eche, Mayur Narayan, Jose Javier Provencio, Nneka O. Sederstrom, Jonathan Sevransky, Jordan Tremper, Rebecca A. Aslakson

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Abstract

While technological innovations are the invariable crux of speculation about the future of critical care, they cannot replace the clinician at the bedside. This article summarizes the work of the Society of Critical Care Medicine-appointed multiprofessional task for the Future of Critical Care. The Task Force notes that critical care practice will be transformed by novel technologies, integration of artificial intelligence decision support algorithms, and advances in seamless data operationalization across diverse healthcare systems and geographic regions and within federated datasets. Yet, new technologies will be relevant and meaningful only if they improve the very human endeavor of caring for someone who is critically ill.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)E0659
JournalCritical Care Explorations
Volume4
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 15 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • critical care
  • future
  • innovations
  • patient-centered care
  • technology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

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