Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main, Anästhesie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Friedberger Landstraße 430, 60389, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Intensive Care Med. 2011 Jul;37(7):1084-6. doi: 10.1007/s00134-011-2235-z. Epub 2011 May 25.
The birth of intensive care medicine was a process that took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, during and after the poliomyelitis epidemic in 1952/1953. The events that led to the creation of the first intensive care unit in the world in December 1953 are well described. It is generally agreed upon that the start of the process was the fact that an anaesthesiologist (Björn Ibsen) was brought out of the operating theatre and asked to use his skills on a 12-year-old girl suffering from polio. The medical record of the girl contains a minute-by-minute description of the historical event. A translation of this part of the record is published as an Online Resource to the article. The role played by the epidemiologist Mogens Björneboe is further analysed. He was the catalyst of the process, being the one with the idea that the skills of an anaesthesiologist could be used for other purposes than surgery. When first Ibsen realised what could be done with his skills, he proved to be one of the most progressive and inventive doctors seen in modern medicine. An interview with Prof. Ibsen in 2006 is published as an Online Resource to the article.
重症监护医学的诞生是一个在丹麦哥本哈根发生的过程，发生于 1952/1953 年脊髓灰质炎流行期间和之后。导致 1953 年 12 月世界上第一个重症监护病房成立的事件被很好地描述了。人们普遍认为，这个过程的开始是一位麻醉师（比约恩·伊本森）被从手术室中带出来，并被要求使用他的技能来治疗一名患有脊髓灰质炎的 12 岁女孩。女孩的病历详细记录了这一历史事件的每一分钟。该记录的这一部分的翻译已作为文章的在线资源发布。进一步分析了流行病学家莫根斯·比约恩博的作用。他是这一过程的催化剂，是第一个认为麻醉师的技能除了手术之外还可以用于其他目的的人。当伊本森第一次意识到他的技能可以做什么时，他被证明是现代医学中最进步和最有创造力的医生之一。文章的在线资源还发布了对伊本森教授 2006 年的采访。
