In the south, intensive care was called resuscitation, i.e. This impression may be perpetuated by the success with which we have systematically evaluated and eliminated the sources of unnecessary morbidity and mortality during anesthesia. The ear–nose–throat specialty was undersubscribed and unattractive to American medical graduates in the early 1980s. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998; 116: 460–7, Wahr JA, Parks R, Boisvert D, Comunale M, Fabian J, Ramsay J, Mangano DT: Preoperative serum potassium levels and perioperative outcomes in cardiac surgery patients: Multicenter study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group. The Residency Review Committee (RRC) requirements for critical care training describe a “critical care rotation, to include active participation in patient care by anesthesia residents in an educational environment in which participation and care extend beyond ventilatory management; (with) active involvement by anesthesiology faculty experienced in the practice and teaching of critical care. A nesthesiology 2000; 93: 638–45, Greif R, Akca O, Horn EP, Kurz A, Sessler DI: Supplemental perioperative oxygen to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection: Outcomes Research Group. In the northern regions of Europe, the emphasis was more on the respiratory side, and the activity was described as “intensive care.” With a few exceptions, anesthesiologists directed the evolution of European intensive care. The Committee on Manpower for Pulmonary and Critical Care Societies study also indicates that surgical ICUs are particularly underserved by intensivists compared with medical units, 39despite literature that clearly indicates that intensivists improve outcomes and reduce costs in surgical ICUs. The academic chairs are responsible for the training of residents and the direction of anesthesia departments, which interface both with other departments and the institutions in which they reside. When daytime ICU rounds are completed in the Raleigh practice, the intensivist supports other departmental activities, such as preoperative consultations on in-house patients (who are likely to require postoperative intensive care) and code call coverage. According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists web site, it is “an educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient.” There is an ample and growing body of literature, much of it published by anesthesiologists, indicating that intensivists improve patient care and resource utilization in the ICU. Many anesthesiologists practice close to ICUs and often provide services such as endotracheal intubation and line placement in those units. Anesthesiologists played a major role in the creation of CCM, which is a logical extension of anesthesia practice. IntelliSpace Critical Care and Anesthesia The print quality of this copy is not an accurate representation of the original. Fellow in Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1987-1988. It is instructive to review the evolution of intensive care in Europe, which took a different path from the United States after the polio pandemics of the 1950s. Less than 4% of the 25,000 board-certified anesthesiologists in the United States have the Certificate of Special Competence in Critical Care. Anesthesiologists have a long and proud history of contributing to investigative endeavors in medicine, biology, and physics. Trustwell Institute of anesthesia and critical care are two disciplinary which aims at reducing the mortality rate by providing immediate life-saving care to the critically ill patient. Anesthesiology can credibly claim both precedence and a proven track record in defending a systematic (re)expansion of the practice of anesthesia-based CCM. In estimating demand for critical care services, the study determined that more than half (56%) of all ICU days were used by people aged 65 yr and older. 17–25The same tools that have been used to investigate the long-term consequences of ischemia or the value of a specific analgesic regimen can be applied to common problems in the ICU. Certifications American Board of Pediatrics, 1987. European intensivists are specifically dedicated to the care of ICU patients rather than caring for them in conjunction with other duties, which differs from the typical American ICU, where the patient is cared for by a team of specialty consultants. research in Africa. 2 Biennial Report | 2018–2019Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine 128 6 3 2 2 90 91 91 95 495 90 95 3 24 395 190 2 495 95 93 90 84 24 195 495 3 6 495 90 Chestnut Hill Needham On the supply side, only 10% of ICUs had high-intensity ICU physician staffing (defined as either a closed ICU, where patients are transferred to an intensivist on arrival, or a unit in which consultation of an intensivist is mandatory). Received from the Board of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, Chicago, Illinois. Vienna, Austria, May 21-23, 1998. Institutions of the McSPI Research Group. Our patient base arrives from the entire state of Missouri and parts of every bordering state: Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. A desirable alternative would be the development of a long term (10-yr) strategic plan eventually resulting in dual certification at the conclusion of the anesthesiology residency. To date, critical care subspecialty certification has been awarded to 957 of its diplomates. The Residency Review Committee should be similarly prescriptive in its requirement for anesthesia-based CCM training during residency. Fellows in Critical Care Medicine should gain experience in the care of patients with neurologic and cardiac diseases, trauma, burns, transplant and obstetric critical care. Academic Med 1991; 66: 620–2, Harris DL, Coleman M, Mallea M: Impact of participation in a family practice track program on student career decisions. These individuals will complete intensive care fellowships and be accredited with special qualifications in CCM by the American Board of Anesthesiology. The opening “window of opportunity” has not gone unnoticed by the hospitalists, 40who are similar to anesthesiologists in that they are hospital-based (and therefore available) and have a natural relationship with a group of patients regularly admitted to the ICU. Ann Surg 1999; 229: 163–71, Hanson CW, Aranda M: Impact of intensivists and ICU teams on outcomes. The European philosophy of CCM explicitly recognizes the distinct skills required of an intensivist. The anticipated increase in demand for intensivists is one that the discipline of anesthesiology is capable of filling. The society should create workshops to educate practice groups about the advantages that can be derived from the provision of critical care expertise (including the creation of a revenue stream separate from operating-room anesthesia), and how to build CCM into a practice. Although it is unlikely that the current 4-yr residency will be lengthened, it is appropriate to reconsider the content of the clinical base year. International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society (ITACCS). Although anesthesiologists took a leadership role in the initial development of critical care, today the American critical care anesthesiologist is an endangered species, overshadowed in numbers and political clout by colleagues from pulmonary medicine and surgery. Address e-mail to . (C), F.C.C.M. The European intensivist practices that discipline exclusively rather than dividing his or her time between the operating room and the ICU. The critical care hours/lifestyle are not bad. In its role as the public voice of the profession, the society should draw attention to relevant literature using venues such as the Public Education portion of the web site. The annual production of anesthesia-based CCM diplomates has remained low, averaging 50–60 per year over the past 10 yr. I have a friend applying for anesthesia interested in critical care. We are also subject, perhaps not coincidentally, to competition and negative perceptions that are specific to the United States. Fig. SOCCA fosters the knowledge and practice of critical care medicine by anesthesiologists through education, research, advocacy, and community. This belief is supported by the fact that many of the “double-boarded” anesthesiologists who entered the discipline in the 1980s after exposure to anesthesiologists in the intensive care environment went on to practice operative anesthesia exclusively. , were “grandfathered.” After the 1991 examination, all applicants had to complete 1 yr of training in a critical care anesthesiology program that was accredited by the Residency Review Committee for Anesthesiology. For example, the Italian certification board was named “Anesthesia and Resuscitation” in 1968 by law, and this led to an absolute linkage between anesthesia and intensive care in that country. 27. This opens up a broad horizon to extend and expand the scope of research involving anesthesia-based intensivists in the future. , sinus endoscopy, radical cancer operations) and the adoption of a more aggressive attitude (“the dura to the pleura”) have reinvigorated the specialty. At present, there is no requirement for critical care training during the clinical base year or for a progressive increase in ICU responsibility during the residency. Many of the best applicants to anesthesia residencies apply because of an interest in CCM. Academic Med 1991; 66: 234–6, Beasley JW: Does teaching by family physicians in the second year of medical school increase student selection of family practice residencies? An intensivist can generate a significant amount of revenue usually sufficient to support a mean salary of $225,000 plus $90,000 benefits. The process of estimating future supply and demand for physician services is complex and requires many assumptions; yet despite the existence of well-defined models, the future supply of physicians is often determined by perceptions of demand rather than empiric data. The success of otorhinolaryngology (relative to anesthesiology) in attracting American medical graduates over the past two decades is shown in (fig. Therefore, understanding the issues related to older adults with respiratory problems is essential to delivering appropriate medical care and providing accurate prognostication for this population [ 4 , 5 ]. Many anesthesiologist–intensivists are members of large faculty practices and part of active, dedicated, university-based critical care services. Given the aggregate purchasing power of these large corporate consumer groups and their broad geographic distribution, it is fair to assume that this specification will have a significant and widespread impact on the organization and delivery of critical care services over the next decade. Areas of dissatisfaction with an anesthesia/critical care practice included burnout, work/life balance, and lack of respect. Most students decide on a discipline by the end of the third year of the 4-yr program. Percentage of residents who were international medical graduates in otorhinolaryngology (ORL) and anesthesia in 1981 and 1998. J Intensiv Care Med 1999; 14: 254–61, Hanson CW, Sladen RN, Cohen NH, Deutschman CS, Breslow M: Demands of an aging population for critical care and pulmonary services. , Raleigh, NC; Demarest, NJ; Bismarck, ND; Orlando, FL) also practice CCM. It is clearly unrealistic to require an anesthesia chair to create a self-sustaining, anesthesia-based critical care service de novo  to retain accreditation. Studies suggest that the mandatory early rotations in these areas favorably influenced students’ attitudes toward them. These considerations and the projected increase in demand for intensivists strongly suggest that the next several years are a time of opportunity. To the extent that nurse anesthetists are seen as being capable of performing in our place in the operating room, we are vulnerable. Crit Care Med 1985; 13: 1001–3, Grenvik A, Leonard JJ, Arens JF, Carey LC, Disney FA: Critical care medicine: Certification as a multidisciplinary subspecialty. Phased implementation will occur over the next several years. However, experiences in the fourth year, during internship and early residency, result in modifications in specialty training for a significant number of young physicians. Many of the applicants for the examination between 1986 and 1991 qualified on the basis of temporary practice criteria, i.e. Anesthesiologists have a history of examining how different intraoperative techniques and approaches alter long-term outcome. The American Board of Anesthesiology has already recognized the importance of postoperative and intensive care. Most importantly, anesthesiologists have improved safety and outcomes in both the operating room and the ICU. )” Note that the specification does not require participation of faculty who are certified in critical care. An expanded role in CCM would significantly increase the value we bring to patients and to the medical community. Such analyses help identify major contributors and trends in publication. In fact, it may increase it. 1). It is unrealistic to expect that we can plausibly engage in the practice of CCM or identify our discipline with CCM to the extent the Europeans have without retooling and refocusing our strategic objectives. Anesthesiology 2001; 95:781–788 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-200109000-00034. This is most likely a result of the fact that medical students with an interest in caring for the critically ill are not aware of the fact that anesthesiologists practice as intensivists. Fam Med 1993; 25: 176–8, Durbin CGJ, McLafferty CL Jr: Attitudes of anesthesiology residents toward critical care medicine training. One influential study estimated that there would be a significant oversupply of specialist physicians in the year 2000 because of the continued growth of managed care and lower use of specialists. Private practice critical care requires the commitment of an entire group and not just the few who are considered intensivists. The most prevalent model for the delivery of CCM is one in which multiple consultants provide specialty care in conjunction with a primary physician who is not an intensivist, despite a growing body of literature showing that intensivists provide more efficient care and better outcomes. However, the component boards could not agree on training qualifications, and the initiative failed. Nighttime admissions to the ICU are “emergent” and thus exempt from compliance rules, and as a result, a single physician can simultaneously direct in the operating room, field calls about intensive care patients, and admit new patients to the ICU. Academic Med 1989; 64: 610–5, Senf JH, Campos-Outcalt D: The effect of a required third-year family medicine clerkship on medical students’ attitudes: Value indoctrination and value clarification. Anesth Analg 1993; 77: 418–26, Fontes ML, Bellows W, Ngo L, Mangano DT: Assessment of ventricular function in critically ill patients: Limitations of pulmonary artery catheterization. Subsequently, respiratory care units spread through the United States, and by 1958, a unit had been established in 25% of hospitals with more than 300 beds. AH = allied health; Anes = anesthesiology; EM = emergency medicine; In = in-training; IM = internal medicine; Nur = nursing; OP = osteopathic; Ped = Pediatrics; Phrm = pharmacology; RT = respiratory therapy; Sur = surgery. Wow, thanks a lot for all this info. The projected increase in demand for critical care services, the current “vacuum” with regard to entrenched disciplines in the ICU, and the documented benefits of intensivists (which have come to the attention of large consumer groups) will compel change. This speciality will certainly reduce the mortality by providing early and appropriate life-saving interventions to all critically ill patients. 26Predicated on the belief that there is an oversupply of specialty physicians, efforts have been made to redirect resident training toward primary care (vide supra). The interest of residents in critical rotations is significantly greater at institutions where anesthesiologists have a leadership role in the administration and delivery of intensive care. Collaborate and strategize on how best to prepare and meet the demands of the Long DM: A century of change in neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins: 1889-1989. Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 1999, This site uses cookies. The resulting expansion in the scope of the surgeon’s practice synergistically supports the anesthesia group practice. This committee used clinical judgment to evaluate current work patterns for critical care and estimated future supply of and demand for these services up to the year 2030 during alternative scenarios (sensitivity analyses). Residents with little patient care responsibility during intensive care rotations express little interest in critical care training, and the general lack of administrative leadership by anesthesiologists in ICUs negatively affects resident interest. Little is known about the state of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine (A.C.C.M.) N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1209–15, Leslie K, Sessler DI: The implications of hypothermia for early tracheal extubation following cardiac surgery. Since its inception in 1986, the American Board of Anesthesiology has provided the CCM examination every second year, most recently in 1999; effective 2001, the examination will be conducted annually. 2). From what he has told me, interest in critical care fellowships is at an all time low. This is only one of several differences between the practice of CCM in the United States and Europe. Current American Board of Anesthesiology and Residency Review Committee specifications require only a brief period of exposure to the ICU during residency. Our hospital is well equipped with swift technology and sophisticated emergency room with multiple beds fulfilling the international standards. JAMA 1988; 260: 3446–50, Brown JJ, Sullivan G: Effect on ICU mortality of a full-time critical care specialist. Fam Med 1993; 25: 174–5, Jones JE: The effect of a student summer assistantship program in family medicine on specialty. The recent fluctuation in resident applicant numbers and the supply and demand for trained anesthesiologists provides an example where perceptions appear to have had a greater impact than the true ratio between supply and demand. Pediatric critical care certification requires a 3-yr training program. 7. In addition to offering a separate stand-alone 2-yr critical care fellowship, the American Board of Internal Medicine incorporated critical training into most pulmonary medicine fellowships and extended the fellowship from 2 to 3 yr. 6As a consequence, almost every graduating pulmonary fellow is board-eligible in both pulmonary medicine and critical care. , rianimazione  in Italy, réanimation  in France, reanimaciòn  in Spain, indicating the focus on cardiac events. It is, however, both realistic and appropriate for the American Board of Anesthesiology and the Residency Review Committee to set more ambitious goals for the critical care training of anesthesia residents. 16Although many anesthesia programs label themselves “Departments of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine” (or some variant), many of these programs include CCM in name only. These practices have many formats, including specialty (i.e. Mayo Clin Proc 1997; 72: 391–9, Multz AS, Chalfin DB, Samson IM, Dantzker DR, Fein AM, Steinberg HN, Niederman MS, Scharf SM: A “closed” medical intensive care unit (MICU) improves resource utilization when compared with an “open” MICU. JAMA 1999; 281: 1310–7, Hanson CW, Deutschman CS, Anderson HL, Reilly PM, Behringer EC, Schwab CW, Price J: Effects of an organized critical care service on outcomes and resource utilization: A cohort study. In Spain, intensive care has developed as an independent specialty. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a tertiary referral center and Level I trauma center with a broad catchment area and an enormous scope of influence. , CA-0 to CA-3) has been completed. JAMA 2000; 284: 2762–70, Martinez B: Business consortium to launch effort seeking higher standards at hospitals. The training should also include administrative experience appropriate to the management of an ICU as well as training in medical ethics, end-of-life care and pain management. JAMA 1999; 281: 2203–10, Akca O, Koltka K, Uzel S, Cakar N, Pembeci K, Sayan MA, Tutuncu AS, Karakas SE, Calangu S, Ozkan T, Esen F, Telci L, Sessler DI, Akpir K: Risk factors for early-onset, ventilator-associated pneumonia in critical care patients: Selected multiresistant versus nonresistant bacteria. The neurosurgeon Dr. Walter Dandy (1886–1946) is credited with establishing the first critical care unit in the country at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Hospitalist 2000; 4 (online journal), Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson M: To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. These result … These result … This survey of CCM-trained anesthesiologists described a high rate of board certification, practice in academic settings, and participation in resident education. Of the 7,800 members of Society of Critical Care Medicine in the United States, approximately 35% are internists, 25% are surgeons, and only 12% are anesthesiologists (fig. 取最新资讯 : The benefit of adding lidocaine to ketamine during rapid sequence endotracheal intubation in patients with septic shock: A randomised controlled trial, Norepinephrine versus phenylephrine infusion for prophylaxis against post-spinal anaesthesia hypotension during elective caesarean delivery: A randomised controlled trial, Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Société Francaise d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation, SFAR, Download the ‘Understanding the Publishing Process’ PDF, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, joint commitment for action in inclusion and diversity in publishing, Check the status of your submitted manuscript in the. The American Society of Anesthesiologists would be acting in a manner consistent with its stated goals by explicitly embracing the practice of CCM as a component of the “medical practice of anesthesiology.”. .” This statement leverages the ability of an emergency medicine program to control the education of its residents in the emergency medicine department, a “territory” that is in many ways analogous to the ICU. Learn about the Critical Care Anesthesia Service at the three main intensive care units (general ICU, thoracic ICU and surgical ICU) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. One approach to a general increase in the critical care training of anesthesia residents would be to modify the curriculum so as to ensure that all board-certified anesthesia residents are also certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology as intensivists, and to completely eliminate or refine the critical care fellowship accreditation. Address correspondence to Shahzad Shaefi, MD, MPH, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave (E/CLS-604), Boston, MA 02215. Anesthesiologists are well positioned to take on a more prominent role in the practice of CCM, and there are reputational, financial, and professional reasons to evaluate the opportunity at this time. As with academic practices, there are several practice models: the Bismarck group, for example, is a partnership of anesthesiologists, cardiologists, and pulmonologists in a single critical care group. Fig. This decline will doubtless continue, reflecting the dramatic decrease in the numbers of graduating anesthesiology residents after 1992. As a result, the number of filled anesthesiology residency positions decreased dramatically from a high of approximately 1,300 in 1988 to approximately 800 in 1999. One relatively simple way to address this perceptual problem is to enhance our visibility outside of the operating room—with patients, families, and colleagues. Research is an essential component of Anesthesia, and the contributions of researchers and institutions can be appreciated from the analysis of scholarly outputs. 1,2Anesthesiologists first took a prominent role in critical care in the United States during World War II, when surgical casualties were grouped together in shock wards. The intensivist is routinely involved with the patient and family during periods of vulnerability and intense stress and is usually a physician with whom the family identifies. By strengthening the language prescribing the medical direction of the ICU in which anesthesia-based critical care fellows train, the Residency Review Committee implicitly acknowledges the importance of anesthesia-based role models in the training of its CCM fellows. 28Based on strong evidence that ICU physicians improve patient outcomes, much of which comes from research by anesthesia-based intensivists, 29–38one specification proposed by this group requires that contract care be provided only at hospitals with physicians who are trained in CCM and exclusively dedicated to the ICU. American anesthesiology is currently defending itself from a major incursion by nurse anesthetists and the perception that anesthesiologists are mere technicians. Critical care is most commonly known as intensive care, which often requires pain medication, called analgesia, to help minimize discomfort in critically ill patients. Finally, European intensivists are salaried, whereas American intensivists are typically reimbursed for visits and procedures. This fellowship is one-year in length for graduates of Anesthesiology residencies and two-years for graduates from Emergency Medicine. The choice of a specialty by graduating medical students is a complex process. Intensivists provide some care for at least one patient in 59% of the ICUs and are more likely to practice in medical ICUs, in hospitals with more than 300 beds, and in hospitals with a large percentage of managed care patients. All graduates will be eligible for board certification in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine on completion of training. The relative percentage of anesthesiologists in the Society of Critical Care Medicine has declined over the past decade (fig. MILWAUKEE – A dangerous fiction has made its way through social media and American politics, the idea that COVID-19 is really only a danger to the … As a result, we are vulnerable to the technician label. The Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) is a closed ICU that comprises 36 beds allocated to an array of critically ill or injured surgical patients requiring pre-operative stabilization, post-operative int… Only half of the available positions were filled in 1997, and only half of these were filled with American medical graduates. Unlike their academic counterparts, private-practice surgeons are not typically interested in providing comprehensive management of patients requiring perioperative intensive care. In the early 1980s, an attempt was made to form a conjoint Board of Critical Care Medicine representing anesthesiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery. Anesthesia faculty members practice critical care exclusively or split their clinical effort between the ICU and the operating room. According to the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, anesthesiologists provide more than half of European intensive care (fig. A seminal event in intensive care was the worldwide outbreak of poliomyelitis in the early 1950s. AT the beginning of the new millennium, anesthesia-based critical care medicine (CCM) is at a crossroads. IntelliSpace Critical Care and Anesthesia Critical care information system With ever-rising healthcare costs, staff shortages, and a need for compliance with evolving national care standards, leveraging clinical information has become a key component to drive improvements in quality of care. American Board of Anesthesiology, 1988. The American Board of Anesthesiology should consider a requirement that the clinical base year include a specified period of critical care training as well as rotations on services that will prepare the trainee to provide care in the ICU (e.g. Physicians trained in pulmonary medicine provide the majority of this care (79%), with anesthesiologists providing only 6% of the total intensive care in the United States. Academic Med 1995; 70: 611–9, Campos-Outcalt D, Senf JH: Characteristics of medical schools related to the choice of family medicine as a specialty. Growth of anesthesiology membership relative to other disciplines in the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) over the past decade (each bar in a group represents a separate year). However, there are several encouraging recent examples where substantial and rapid change has resulted in the creation of new disciplines (e.g. The authors suggest that the leadership of the discipline should promptly evaluate the merits of and possible approaches to substantial reengagement in the practice of CCM. The Residency Review Committee has recognized the importance of the milieu in which CCM training is provided. At the present time, more than half (57%) of all current certificates have been issued through the grandfather clause. Few people want to go into the field, as the lifestyle/pay are substantially below JAMA 2001; 285: 1017–8, Wachter RM: Hospitalists and the ICU. Unlike many other medical disciplines, anesthesia is hospital-based. (This training must take place in units in which the majority of patients have multisystem disease. Crit Care Med 1978; 6: 355–9, Grenvik A: Subspecialty certification in Critical Care Medicine by American specialty boards. This approach would acknowledge a special role for anesthesiologists who are particularly trained for leadership in ICU administration, education, and research. The society should continue to act as an advocate in critical care billing issues. In Denmark, nurses and medical students ventilated patients manually for days, which lent impetus to the engineering and mass production of positive pressure ventilators. Anes = anesthesiology; IM = internal medicine; Ped = Pediatrics; Sur = surgery. Several large private practice anesthesiology groups (e.g. Crit Care Med 1988; 16: 11–7, Manthous CA, Amoateng-Adjepong Y, al-Kharrat T, Jacob B, Alnuaimat HM, Chatila W, Hall JB: Effects of a medical intensivist on patient care in a community teaching hospital. Anesthesiology was especially hard hit in the movement toward primary care. Here, too, anesthesiologists were key participants. With the accelerated advance of managed care in 1992, the US government anticipated an oversupply of specialists and mandated that medical schools ensure at least 55% enrollment in the primary care specialties (family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics). Although the supply of intensivists is predicted to remain stable up to year 2030, the Committee on Manpower for Pulmonary and Critical Care Societies study estimates that demand will increase significantly, driven largely by the demographics of aging baby boomers. However, it is noteworthy that, of the anesthesiologists that practice critical care, the majority do so as part of a single specialty private practice group. J Neurosurg 1989; 71: 635–8, Pinkus RL: Innovation in neurosurgery: Walter Dandy in his day. Membership has also declined in the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, which was founded in 1986 to represent the specialty within the American Society of Anesthesiologists. 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