On methodological problems of critical care medicine
The article again considers one of the debatable topics of the general pathology - the conventionality of the concept of syndrome’. A long dispute between supporters of monocausalism and conditionalism in this issue, the authors propose to consider from the pragmatic positions necessary for intensive therapy of critical states. In this case, two important points must be considered: the meaning of the concept of syndrome’ in reanimatology and in general therapeutic practice is fundamentally different; contradictions between the reanimatologists themselves are due to the fact that in analyzing the critical state, different authors operate with different levels of parameter integration.