Intensive Care Medicine

Most frequent pathologies requiring admission to the ICU:

• Serious infections of any origin. Septic shock.
• Respiratory insufficiency.
• Heart failure with multiorgan failure. Cardiogenic shock.
• Severe trauma.
• Serious alterations of the Nervous System (haemorrhage, infections, infarcts, etc.).
• Care and Support for Multiorgan Failure of different origins, etc.
• Complex Haemato-Oncological patients.
• Intoxication by various substances (drugs or toxics) with vital risk.
• High-risk post-operative surgery: Cardiac, Neurosurgery, Vascular, Oncological Surgery, HIPEC, Oncological Gynaecology, Interventional Endovascular Procedures.

Recommended links:

• Spanish Intensive, Critical and Coronary Units Medicine Society (SEMICYUC): https://semicyuc.org/
• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): https://www.esicm.org/
• Registry of infections related to the use of devices used during patients' stay in the ICU: http://hws.vhebron.net/envin-helics/
• Critical Care Medicine Society (SCCM): https://www.sccm.org/