RT Book, Section A1 Farcy, David A. A1 Chiu, William C. A1 Marshall, John P. A1 Osborn, Tiffany M. SR Print(0) ID 1135699353 T1 Foreword T2 Critical Care Emergency Medicine, 2e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071838764 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135699353 RD 2024/03/29 AB Critical care by its very nature is a multidisciplinary disease. Virtually every critically ill patient requires input from a multiplicity of practitioners. Physicians in the ICU provide direct care, and orchestrate and coordinate care for all other practitioners who participate. Given this complexity, it is interesting to note that critical care has been a recent development. The first true multidisciplinary ICU was opened in 1958 at the Baltimore City Hospital, now named Johns Hopkins Bayview. It was also the first ICU that had 24-hour physician coverage.