intensivist
nounEtymology From intensive + -ist.
1
Medicine, Sciences A practitioner of intensive care.
- Adult criteria are inappropriate for infants, but it was found that Dutch doctors sometimes do actively end the life of a child with the specific consent of the parents; a recent survey revealed that as many as 45% of neotologists and intensivists had intentionally done so.2013, Peter De Cruz, Comparative Healthcare Law, page 400:
- Derived terms
- neurointensivist, nonintensivist