It is worth to study the step-by-step evolution of neonatal intensive care and to know these concepts which are the foundations of this branch of medicine as well as those which were completely missed.
Right now, PR2 still requires lots of intensive, physical instruction to know where the spatula goes, and how hard to flip the pancake, but they're making progress toward a Star Trek-like world where a simple utterance, "Computer, make me some pancakes," will qualify as cooking breakfast.
Intensive care specialists need to know whether the very elderly benefit from ICU admission as much as younger patients, whether they have an acceptable quality of life after ICU treatment and which patient characteristics predict good outcomes.
Some local authorities will have done good work, but even where families received intensive help, it is impossible to know that they would not have turned themselves around anyway.
In clinical practice, cardiovascular risk factors are usually treated simultaneously in diabetic patients, and before implementing a screening program for diabetes it is important to know whether intensive multifactorial treatment of screen-detected diabetes lowers the risk of CVD.
"If you're going to treat a symptom"—the underrepresentation of women in math-intensive fields—"you've got to know where it's happening and focus your efforts on where things start to diverge".
She recalled one mother of a severely ill child who wanted to know more about continuing intensive treatment.
Parents expressed a need to know more about the intensive care unit and contextual information about the environment [ 24].
Most directors contacted for this article agreed that an intensive getting-to-know-you process was critical.
After a rigorous selection process and at least five years of intensive training, they know how to fly a spacecraft, fix a space station and use a space toilet.
