Bjørn Aage Ibsen

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Bjørn Aage Ibsen
Intensive-care medicine, anesthesia

Bjørn Aage Ibsen (August 30, 1915 – August 7, 2007) was a Danish

intensive-care medicine.[1]

Education

Ibsen graduated in 1940 from medical school at the University of Copenhagen and trained in anesthesiology from 1949 to 1950 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Career

Ibsen became involved in the 1952

CO2 in blood samples and inside a little boy's lung,[3] Ibsen changed management directly. He instituted protracted positive pressure ventilation by means of intubation into the trachea, and enlisting 200 medical students to manually pump oxygen and air into the patients lungs. The first patient treated this way and whose life was saved, was 12-year-old Vivi Ebert, who had serious bulbar polio.[4]
In this fashion, mortality declined from 90% to around 25%. Patients were managed in three special 35 bed areas, which aided charting and other management.

In 1953, Ibsen set up the world's first medical/surgical intensive care unit in a converted student nurse classroom in Kommunehospitalet (The Municipal Hospital) in Copenhagen, and provided one of the first accounts of the management of tetanus with muscle relaxants and controlled ventilation. In 1954, Ibsen was elected head of the department of anaesthesiology at that institution. He jointly authored the first known account of ICU management principles in Nordisk Medicin, September 18, 1958: 'Arbejdet på en Anæsthesiologisk Observationsafdeling' ("The Work in an Anaesthesiologic Observation Unit") with Tone Dahl Kvittingen from Norway.[5]

References

  1. S2CID 54311450
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  2. ^ "Louise Reisner-Sénélar (2009) The Danish anaesthesiologist Björn Ibsen a pioneer of long-term ventilation on the upper airways".
  3. PMID 13134176
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  4. ^ https://whyy.org/segments/how-one-doctors-risky-experiment-paved-the-way-for-modern-intensive-care/
  5. S2CID 40728057
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