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Rapid response teams
This article reviews the RRT system concept and provides an update on the current state of such systems, their challenges, their performance, the evidence supporting their usefulness and their evolution. Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are the key components of Rapid Response Systems. RRT-based rescue systems were developed in response to...
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Emergency pre-hospital care challenges: Greece
The ongoing economic crisis in Greece and inflow of refugees has led to changes to the pre-hospital emergency medicine services. Greece is a country of 10.1 million inhabitants, half of whom live in six cities: Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Patra, Larissa and Ioannina. In recent years the country drew media attention because of the financial...
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Lighter emergency breathing tubes associated with higher survival after OHCA
When paramedics used a new, more flexible laryngeal breathing tube to give oxygen to patients who had had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, these patients survived longer than patients who received oxygen via the traditional endotracheal tube, according to the results of a large randomised controlled trial conducted in the USA. The results...
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Study: Air pollution associated with ARDS hospitalisation in over 65s
A comparison of hospital admissions of patients over 65 and air pollution in the USA has found an association between exposure to pollutants and admission for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society. The researchers analysed data by zip code from nearly 30 million...
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Healthcare Business International 2018: The new global healthcare landscape
The new global healthcare landscape HBI 2018 focused on problems around building capacity, reaching out to new customers and deploying new solutions around digital health and artificial intelligence. Healthcare Business International’s annual conference is the only CEO-level event focused on private healthcare services, bringing together...
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The future of healthcare: Turning challenges into opportunities
Providing value-based care will be one of the driving forces in the future as highlighted by Siemens Healthineers professionals Dr. Ghada Trotabas, Dr. Arthur Kaindl, and Dr. Jonathan Darer at Healthcare Business International (HBI) 2018. The biggest challenge facing healthcare is the need to improve value for patients. Healthcare systems today...
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Healthcare demands are growing and evolving - so must we
Healthcare companies must evolve to help providers face the challenge of an ageing and growing population suffering from the increased incidence and diversity of chronic disease. We are experiencing a paradigm shift in the demand and definition for value-based healthcare, and it is no secret that this has resulted from the daunting task that...
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Affidea grows in Portugal and expands into teleradiology
Affidea Group is a leading healthcare services provider with over 7500 professionals performing almost 13 million examinations each year. Affidea is recognised for its superior medical technology platform, scale efficiencies, internationally awarded medical excellence and its continued expansion into new ways to create value as an integrator provider...
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Osama Elhassan
Head of E-Health Section - Health Data & Information Analysis Department, Dubai Health Authority TOP QU OTE FROM BLOG: The potential of e-Health professions in the GCC region “The digital transformation and expanding healthcare ecosystem presents an opportunity for the Gulf Cooperation Council region to ride the waves of change...
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Mathias Goyen
Professor Of Diagnostic Radiology - Hamburg University; Chief Medical Officer - Oncology - Ge Healthcare TOP QUOTE FROM BLOG: Predictive maintenance in healthcare - If you can predict it, you can prevent it “The key advantages of predictive maintenance are that it can allow timely and convenient scheduling of corrective...
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