Bjørn Aage Ibsen

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1953, Ibsen set up what became the world's first Medical/Surgical ICU 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.