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CIRSE Review
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) Vienna, Austria www.cirse.org www.esir.org @cirsesociety CIRSE’s Annual Meeting, Europe’s premier interventional radiology (IR) congress, attracted over 6,400 delegates from 78 countries this year. The scientific programme again focused on six core themes,...
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ARAB HEALTH Congress Preview
The statistics are impressive: in its 40th year, the second largest healthcare congress and exhibition in the world, and the largest in the Middle East, will be host to 4,000 exhibitors, who will attract close to 95,000 visitors. Scheduled alongside the exhibition, the Arab Health Congress programme is packed with 18 conferences that will be attended...
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Leadership of Staff
Senior managers must prepare their organisation for tomorrow's world, in which the quality of the results of holistically designed meta-processes counts. Their remit goes far beyond achieving successful daily management structures, and demands a new set of qualities. These include the capacity to envision future scenarios and be answerable for their...
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Clinical Leadership and the Challenge of Change
Key Points • Having clinicians involved in management improves outcomes for patients and saves money. • Partnerships between clinicians, professional organisations and managers has allowed spread of innovation at scale in Ireland. • Clinicians and managers are together the stewards of healthcare. • “what’s well-made endures, and shines on”....
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Radiology in Europe: A Snapshot
Key Points • Demand increasing for medical imaging • Few unemployed radiologists • Teleradiology and outsourcing lack national legislation • Other healthcare professions are encroaching on radiology “turf” Today, European radiology lies at the centre of the healthcare chain. Nevertheless, we don’t know very much about how this profession...
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When the HIS Lights Go Out
Key Points • Article discusses the contingency measures envisioned in KBC Zagreb in case of total or partial HIS outage • Important issues highlighted in case all technical risk mitigation measures failed • Scenarios described: total HIS outage or subsystem failures/disconnections for short and longer period of time • Procedures for off-HIS...
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Psychiatric Drug Development – A Dry Pipeline?
Key Points • Psychiatric drugs are among the most profitable products for the pharmaceutical industry. • Despite this, investment in psychiatric drug development continues to decline. • A major reason may be the fact that there has been no major breakthrough in this area of drug development for the last thirty years. • Several “me-too” products have...
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Research News
Sniffing Out C. difficile Rapid detection of C. difficile could be on its way with the development by UK scientists of an ‘electronic nose.’ Using a mass spectrometer, the researchers have shown that it is possible to identify the unique ‘smell’ of C-diff, which would lead to rapid diagnosis. In addition, the scientists say it could...
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PVI and SpHb Studies Presented at ESA 2014
Two Randomized Trials Presented at the Euroanaesthesia 2014 Congress Show Similar Fluid Administration and Risk Profile with PVI as with Invasive or Complicated Procedures Two Additional Studies Presented on Noninvasive SpHb in Postpartum Hemorrhage Detection and Oral Surgery Four new clinical studies evaluating Masimo noninvasive patient...
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MicroVision Medical Launches Instant Microcirculation Analysis at the Bedside:
A New Tool to Quantify the Microcirculatory Effects of (fluid) Resuscitation Ever since the introduction of microcirculatory monitoring at the bedside, physicians and clinical investigators have had one wish: to instantly have an analysis of the microcirculation at the bedside.(1) The fourth generation of MicroVision Medical’s...
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