Are admission decisions to a medical intensive care unit based on functional status rather than severity of illness . A single center experience?
MICU admission decisions are implicitly based on patients' baseline functional status rather than severity of illness.
Apparently "stable" anemic premature infants may be in a clinically unrecognized high cardiac output state, and some echocardiographic measurements do not improve within 48 hours after transfusion. The benefits of transfusion practices guided by measures of cardiac function should be evaluated.