Critical care evolves to become patient-centred rather than clinician-based

Madam, critical care has evolved in the past few decades to become patient-centred rather than clinician- based. In 2007, the American College of Critical Care Medicine task force published forty-three recommendations, endorsing a shared decision-making model which incorporates the familycentred care theory, where the family is a social unit that has significant effect on the patient s outcomes.Part of the Patient- Centred approach or Patient and Family-Centred Care (PFCC)is to shift from a patriarchal or disease-oriented philosophy to a more holistic, multi-disciplinary one, in which the family of the patient, including non-blood related kin , are actively involved in medical decision-making and management.