Intensive Care Units

  • Severity of illness: APACHE II analysis of an ICU population
    John D. Lockrem, MD, Edgar Lopez, MD, Jean Gallagher, CCRN, Gabie E. Church, MS and Fawzy G. Estafanous, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 477-486;

    Reporting ICU outcome using APACHE II computer program criteria allows more meaningful comparisons of ICU outcome data, and enables the standardization of quality assurance programs.

  • Transesophageal echocardiography in the critical care unit
    Vicente E. Font, MD, Timothy P. Obarski, DO, Allan L. Klein, MD, James C. Bartlett, DO, James J. Nemec, MD, William J. Stewart, MD and Ernesto E. Salcedo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1991, 58 (4) 315-322;

    Transesophageal echocardiography can provide a new acoustic window to the heart in critically ill patients, offering improved identification of cardiac abnormalities.

  • Quality assessment in the medical intensive care unit: evolution of a data model
    Edward D. Sivak, MD and Alejandro Perez-Trepichio, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1990, 57 (3) 273-279;