Technology and the Future of Intensive Care Unit Design
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Issue Date
2011-10-01Author
Rashid, Mahbub
Publisher
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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Changing market demand, aging population, severity of illnesses, hospital acquired infection, clinical staff shortage, technological innovations, and environmental concerns—all are shaping the critical care practice in the United States today. However, how these will shape intensive care unit (ICU) design in the coming decade is anybody's guess. In a graduate architecture studio of a research university, students were asked to envision the ICU of the future while responding to the changing needs of the critical care practice through innovative technological means. This article reports the ICU design solutions proposed by these students.
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This is the author's accepted manuscript. The original published version can be found online at http://journals.lww.com/ccnq/pages/default.aspx.
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Rashid, Mahbub. (2011). "Technology and the Future of Intensive Care Unit Design." Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 64(4):332-360. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1097/CNQ.0b013e31822ba782.
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