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Guest Editorial
Creating Safer Healthcare Healthcare professionals have long recognised the benefits of fostering wellness—that is, focusing on what is going right—instead of just trying to head off, or ameliorate, what might otherwise go wrong. By understanding the key determinants of good health we can keep as many patients as possible out of doctor’s surgeries...
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Getting Started with a Health Blog
The Internet is full of blogs. They are multithemed sites, self-managed by the authors and demonstrative of, and only limited by, the authors’ level of creativity. They are potentially accessible to anyone and everyone. There are numerous health blogs, but the proportion of health professionals who are bloggers is low. Having a blog is a cost-effective...
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Low-Flow Extracorporeal CO2 Removal: Enhancing Lung Protection in ARDS
New technique provides simple, minimally invasive extracorporeal lung support. The Challenge of Optimizing Lung Protection in ARDS Despite many advances, ARDS mortality remains between 27-45%. 1 Few interventions have proven effective at improving outcomes in ARDS, a notable exception being the use of low tidal volume ( ≤...
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Revolutionizing Intensive Care Ventilation
Salvia medical used to be known among major providers and insiders primarily as an innovative development company for anesthesia ventilators, intensive care ventilators, and clinical respiratory therapy devices. All of that changed when Salvia medical presented its new ventilator family at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Sweden in 2014....
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Improved Microbial Diagnostics for the Critically Ill Patient with PCR/ESI-MS
By George F. Winter Eddleston, Peeblesshire, Scotland [email protected] S epsis is a constant challenge facing those who care for critically ill patients. Sepsis and septic shock contribute substantially to morbidity and mortality in this group, and in 2012 authors of guidelines for appropriate management...
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Stroke Care Out of Reach for One-Third of Americans
One-third of the U.S. population does not have access to a primary stroke centre within one hour by ambulance, according to a new study published online in the March 4 issue of Neurology . Even under optimal conditions, a large proportion of the U.S. populace would be unable to access a stroke centre within this timeframe. Certification of hospitals...
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"Second wind" from Vienna – 25 Years of Lung Transplants
25 years of lung transplantation was marked at the Medical University of Vienna and Vienna General Hospital (AKH Wien) on 6 March with a celebration and symposium. The first lung transplantation was performed at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna in November 1989. 25 years later the Medical University of Vienna/ AKH Wien is one of the...
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ICU Congress Listing
April 9-11 11th Emirates Critical Care Conference 2015 (ECCC 2015) Dubai, UAE www.eccc-dubai.com 16-17 Network For The Advancement Of Transfusion Alternatives 16th Annual Symposium on Patient Blood Management, Hateamsioss and Thrombosis 2015 (NATA 2015) Prague, Czech Republic www.nataonline.com 23-24 12th...
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WCACS 2015 Preview
Highlights of the 2015 7th World Congress of the Abdominal Compartment Society, Ghent, Belgium , May 28-30, 2015 The 7th World Congress of the Abdominal Compartment Society in Ghent in May 2015 follows on the recent successful meetings in Cartagena, Colombia (2013), Orlando, USA (2011) and Dublin, Ireland (2009), and brings the meeting back to...
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Israeli Society of Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing
The Israeli Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing Society is very active and includes a sub-group, the evidence-based nursing (EBN) ICU group. This group meets once a month. The participants include bedside nurses, researchers, educators and head nurses from general ICUs, open heart surgery, intensive cardiac care and cath labs. For the past 10 years...
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