The number of ICUs using TH in Poland increased threefold in the 5 year period of 2005-2010. However, the proportion of ICUs using TH is still low (21.7%) compared to other European countries. Further efforts should be undertaken to reduce barriers to implementation of current resuscitation guidelines.
The evolution of operative techniques in thyroid surgery that has taken place over the past several decades would not have been possible if not for a sui generis revolution in surgery at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The three most important events of the end of the 19th century, i.e., the introduction of anesthesia, the use of artery forceps and ligation of blood vessels, as well as prophylactic management of perioperative infections decidedly affected the improvement of therapeutic results and drastically decreased mortality rates down to an unthinkable 1% of patients operated on due to various thyroid conditions. The foundations of pathophysiology presented by Emil Theodor Kocher and standardization of surgical techniques proposed by Frank Lahey, William Halstedt or Jan Mikulicz-Radecki consolidated the position of classic thyroidectomy as the most effective method of treating thyroid gland diseases. Over the decades, the technique has undergone some minor alterations only, but the last three decades have marked a
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