title: The place of a general intensive care unit in a metropolitan hospital.
abstract: The results of a six-year survey are given of the admissions, treatment and prognosis of 3310 patients in the intensive care unit at Middlemore Hospital from 1966-72. The range and extent of the treatment underlines both the need for and the value of a general intensive care unit in the integrated daily routine of a large general hospital.
mesh_terms: D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000628:therapy; D006760:Hospitalization; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007902:Length of Stay; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009026:Mortality; D009520:New Zealand; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D011041:Poisoning / Q000628:therapy; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D000078329:Workforce