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Author(s) -
SELLEVOLD O. F. M.,
KIRKEBYGARSTAD I.,
PELOSI P.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2012.02671.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , intensive care , medicine , university hospital , library science , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , philosophy , linguistics , computer science
Alf Prøysen, the Norwegian storyteller for children, told about the clever little billy-goat kid who counted his fellow animals at the farm: I am one and the calf is two. . . . Not knowing the purpose of counting, animosity arose among the other animals; they ran along chasing him to make him stop. Eventually, they all ended up in great danger where the kid’s knowledge of counting helped save their day. The tale illustrates our opposition to numbers when the benefits are obscure. In anaesthesiology and intensive care, we continuously make decisions on management and are in\udneed of reliable and precise information – which may come from numbers