A few of our favorite unconfirmed ideas.

Marini, John J

Gattinoni, Luciano

Ince, Can

Kozek-Langenecker, Sibylle

Mehta, Ravindra L

Pichard, Claude

Westphal, Martin

Wischmeyer, Paul

Vincent, Jean-Louis

England

2016-11-06T17:37:49Z

2015

Medical practice is rooted in our dependence on the best available evidence from incremental scientific experimentation and rigorous clinical trials. Progress toward determining the true worth of ongoing practice or suggested innovations can be glacially slow when we insist on following the stepwise scientific pathway, and a prevailing but imperfect paradigm often proves difficult to challenge. Yet most experienced clinicians and clinical scientists harbor strong thoughts about how care could or should be improved, even if the existing evidence base is thin or lacking. One of our Future of Critical Care Medicine conference sessions encouraged sharing of novel ideas, each presented with what the speaker considers a defensible rationale. Our intent was to stimulate insightful thinking and free interchange, and perhaps to point in new directions toward lines of innovative theory and improved care of the critically ill. In what follows, a brief background outlines the rationale for each novel and deliberately provocative unconfirmed idea endorsed by the presenter.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728101

cc14719

1466-609X

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12987

eng

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Crit Care

10.1186/cc14719

Critical Care

Critical Illness

Evidence-Based Medicine

Forecasting

Humans

Thinking

Ventilation

Wit and Humor as Topic

A few of our favorite unconfirmed ideas.

Journal article

Wischmeyer, Paul|0000-0002-3369-7911

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728101

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Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine

Clinical Science Departments

Duke

Duke Clinical Research Institute

Institutes and Centers

School of Medicine

Published

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