Then in his late 20s, Dr Jibani had qualified as a doctor a year before moving to the UK for training in intensive care medicine.

BBC: Dr Mahdi Mabruk Jibani

The Intensive Care Society, PICS, the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine say there is no single solution to the problem, but make a number of recommendations.

BBC: Shortage of critical care paediatric beds, doctors warn

Intensive-care medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity and a test of whether such complexity can, in fact, be humanly mastered.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist

There are degrees of complexity, though, and intensive-care medicine has grown so far beyond ordinary complexity that avoiding daily mistakes is proving impossible even for our super-specialists.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist

Now survival is commonplace, and a large part of the credit goes to the irreplaceable component of medicine known as intensive care.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist

Earlier today, a study in Science Translational Medicine proposed that DNA sequencing could become a standard first-choice test for infants in neonatal intensive care units, because a combination of new software and hardware could allow doctors to get results in just 50 hours, answering questions about what is making a baby sick far faster when time is of the essence.

FORBES: DNA Sequencing: Is Science Fiction Becoming Medical Fact?