Max Harry Weil: A tribute from the Italian research fellows

• Published in: Journal of critical care Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 626 - 633
• Main Authors: Kette, Fulvio, MD, Pellis, Tommaso, MD, Ristagno, Giuseppe, MD, Cammarata, Gianluca, MD, Gullo, Antonino, MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01-12-2011; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Anesthesiology; Critical Care; Critical Care - history; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Lifesaving; Max Harry Weil; Medicine; Meetings; United States; Weil; United States
• ISSN: 0883-9441; 1557-8615
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.09.007

The assumption was that immediately life-endangered patients, the critically ill, and injured, may have substantially better chances of survival if provided with professionally advanced minute-to-minute objective measurements. [...]Dr Weil was prompted to implement continuous monitoring of the electrocardiogram, blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and other vital signs complemented by arterial and central venous pressures, urine output, central and peripheral temperatures, and intermittent measurements of blood gases from vascular sites. [...]besides being an impressive scientist, Dr Weil was a strong man, restless, and always ready to a new challenge. [...]in 2009, although his now progressed disease and the visible deriving problems, he traveled together with Dr Ristagno to Florence in occasion of the World Federation of Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine congress (Fig. 5), of which he was the honorary president.