Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
By Marie Rosenthal, MS
For decades, infectious diseases were not the leading cause of ICU admittance—only about 20% of cases were due to an infectious cause. But that is likely to change in the coming years as infectious diseases skyrocket in the United States and globally, predicted Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc, FCCM, a plenary speaker at the 2023 Critical Care Congress, held in San Francisco.
The reasons are