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Professor in Anaesthesiology and Reanimation; Head of Intensive Care Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Ankara University, Medical School Ankara, Turkey
President Turkish Society of Intensive Care
The history of intensive care (IC) in Turkey has followed a somewhat similar pattern to other European countries (see Figure 1). The first intensive care unit (ICU) was founded in a state hospital in Istanbul in 1959. The first attempts to institute intensive care in several cities were performed almost exclusively by anaesthesiologists. In 1977 those pioneer anaesthesiologists attended their first...
READ MOREIn Turkey intensive care was not a separate specialty for years, and was managed mainly as a subspecialty of anaesthesiology. In 2009 a new regulation was announced by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in which intensive care medicine (ICM) was recognised as a supraspecialty. Regarding this regulation, ICM education has a duration of three years after primary specialty training in anaesthesiology, pulmonology,...
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