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Walker Dandy, famed John's Hopkins neurosurgeon is noted to have created a special unit in 1923 for critically ill patients.

First ICU created in Massachusetts 1952 by Bjorn Ibsen.

Staffing in intensive care units is different in places around the world.

Advanced practice providers provide care in the intensive care units, they are nurse practitioners and physicians assistants.

Nurses provide care within the ICU. The nurses may be Registered nurses (RN) or Licensed nurse practitioner (LPN). Pharmacist work on the health care team in the ICU.

Intensive care medicine editing plan

Week 1:

Providing citations and background for education of the intensive care physician

Include citations and review sources for information about Intensive care

Week 2:

creating a new section and header that describes denotes the types of critical care outside of organ system. NICU for example is not an organ system based classification but a special population based classification

Elaborate on the critical care team and all involved, i.e. pharmacist, physicians, nursing, APP, etc. their certifications and education background

Week 3:

Refining equipment and systems to further better denote medications listed from equipment

Adding information to the intensive critical care overview section

Week 4:

Within the organ system header, breaking down major systems that are monitored by intensive care medicine

Creating a section for other topics that are important in intensive care

I believe that the bones of this page have started well. There is helpful information that looks to address many aspects of intensive care. I am participating in a wikiproject medicine course and will be editing aspects of this page. I first would like to include citations and review information already on the page with the goal of ensuring we are providing accurate information to anyone that may refer to the page. I plan to elaborate on the critical care team and professions involved, with their certification and education process. I would like to create a section and header that gives the types of intensive care unit types and classifications. A refinement of common equipment and further delineating equipment from common medications. The plan would add information to the intensive care overview section and create a section for other considerations not addressed in the already created sections. The plan includes re-organization of the organ system section with links to corresponding wikipedia pages. I will use sources from pubmed, clincal key, lexicomp, uptodate and access medicine for information. The edits will attempt to avoid medical jargon and use language that can be understood by the lay person. The page will be peer reviewed and with the help of the online community should produce a source of evolving information.