Did you mayhaps mean intensives?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine Of or pertaining to intensive care
- n. medicine A practitioner of intensive care
Examples
“But there are only about 6,000 board certified "intensivist" doctors--far short of the number needed to meet the demand using existing technology.”
“To schedule a hospital to hospital transfer, call 215-590-2644 and ask to speak to the cardiac intensivist on call.”
“Only 46% of U.S. hospitals have a board-certified intensivist available round the clock.”
“The goal of the team, which includes an intensivist, a critical-care fellow and a nurse, is to intervene early and prevent cardiac arrests.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If patients are admitted to the hospital and their condition is not stable, a night-time intensivist will go see them right away," says Emmel Golden, the medical director of the ICU.”
“A recent conversation with an intensivist illustrated the point:”
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