Critical Care Medicine in Korea

• 22/05/2015

The Past, The Present and the Future History of Critical Care in Korea and the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine The first intensive care unit (ICU) in Korea was established in 1968 with six beds in a university hospital in Seoul, and the number has since expanded to 220 ICUs taking care of 3197 patients (data from a one-day survey in 2009). As in other countries, such as Dr. Peter Safar...