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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

IBSEN, Bjørn Aage (1915 – 2007)

1915 – 2007

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1954

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The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.

IBSEN, Bjørn Aage (1915 – 2007)

Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…