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Diagnosis: an overlooked procedure in intensive care

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Critical care can fail when a diagnosis is missed, delayed, or not reconsidered, even if physiological management is technically proficient.
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Physiological optimization and sophisticated monitoring cannot compensate for failure to recognize the underlying diagnosis.
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Diagnostic reasoning may require repeated examinations, review of records and medications, recovery of prior tests, and information from families or primary care physicians.
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The article emphasizes curiosity, persistence, humility, and continued questioning as essential to diagnosis in intensive care.
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Critical care medicine requires technical expertise and diagnostic reasoning, with equal rigor devoted to both.