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Title: Practice%20of%20Critical%20Care%20in%20South%20Korea


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Practice of Critical Care in South Korea
  • Gee Young Suh, MD
  • Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care
    Medicine
  • Samsung Medical Center
  • SungKyunKwan University School of Medicine
  • Seoul, Korea

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Types of ICU
  • Open vs closed
  • Many hospitals employ open system
  • Some hospitals employ closed system in selected
    ICUs

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Training of ICU Physicians
  • No formal training in critical care medicine
  • Chief of ICU
  • Surgical or multidisciplinary ICU many
    anesthesiologist, surgeons
  • Medical ICU pulmonologist, cardiologist
  • Coronary care unit cardiologist

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Formal Training
  • Just few hours of clinical clerkship for medical
    students at most universities
  • Residents
  • No formal guideline for training residents in
    critical care
  • In 2001, working group to form a formal guideline
    was established by Korean Society of Critical
    Care Medicine
  • Fellows
  • No formal guideline
  • Different levels of training in different
    hospitals

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Key Clinical Decision Makers
  • Intensivist
  • Ventilator and hemodynamic decision making
  • Admission and discharge decisions
  • Attending physician
  • Family counseling
  • Treatment of specific diseases
  • Fellow/House residents
  • Day-to-day care of patients

7
Problems Hindering Development of Critical Care
in Korea
  • Low cost of critical care
  • Most hospitals private
  • Medical costs set and controlled by the
    government
  • Administrators see ICUs as money-losing
    department
  • Few true intensivists
  • Even active interested doctors cannot devote full
    time to the ICU
  • No formal training or guideline in critical care

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Pressing Educational Needs
  • More physicians devoted to critical care medicine
    are needed
  • Teach physicians and administrators why
    intensivist-directed ICUs are important and
    necessary
  • Educate physicians interested in critical care
    medicine the basic skills necessary to become
    intensivists

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