Practice Patterns of Anesthesiologist-Intensivists in the US | ASA Monitor | American Society of Anesthesiologists
ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 29–30. Critical care medicine as an anesthesiology board subspecialty was established in 1986. Interestingly, in the early 1980s, other specialties, including internal medicine and surgery, attempted to create a unified Board of Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology 2001;95:781-8). This was ultimately unsuccessful due to disagreements on training qualifications, hence the individualized board certifications within disparate fields as we know them today. In the United