Book Description | "Dear Reader:
Stories from the Intensive Care Units
Suffering and pain are integral parts of the human experience, including what patients in intensive care go through daily. In this book, we read about the real experiences of people mentioned by name; so that we realize that healing is achieved by combining scientific progress with human relations.
In this book, we read how doctors, nurses and other assistant specialists worked to study the best ways for patients to recover and dispense with life support devices, and to recover from the delirium that affects some intensive care patients, and to rehabilitate them. These efforts crystallized into an integrated global program called the (ABCDEF) package, which aims to accelerate recovery and involve the patient's family in the treatment plan.
As a doctor working in the Middle East, it is my great pleasure to see medicine in our region rise to the highest international levels, and our advanced hospitals are the greatest witness to that; they provide the best services for the most severe cases of illness, and I see in translating this book a wonderful step to deliver a message to our readers full of hope and healing.
I advise you to read this The book and share it with your friends and medical team so that they can feel the human spirit in their dealings. You can also visit Dr. Elie's website (www.icudelirium.org) to find pictures of patients who shared their stories in this book. Perhaps this will inspire us to improve medical services everywhere.
Dr. Yassin Arabi
Head of the Intensive Care Department
Medical Director of Respiratory Services, King Abdulaziz Medical City Professor at the College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
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