Early Recognition of Sepsis Patients with sepsis, now defined as a severe infection with some degree of associated organ dysfunction, make up a large proportion of the critically ill population and, although outcomes have improved over the last decade, mortality rates remain above 20-30%, and even close to 40% when shock is present. There are no...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital / Free University of Brussels Brussels, Belgium [email protected] The intensive care unit is one of the most expensive parts of the hospital to run. While no intensivist would like to ration intensive care, there are possibilities for...
READ MOREAuthors: Fabio Paolicchi, PhD, RT Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology University of Pisa, Italy [email protected] Jacopo Negri, RT Macerata Hospital Italy Filippo Miniati, RT Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology University of Pisa, Italy...
READ MOREAuthor: KLAS Research Orem, UT USA +1-800-920-4109 www.klasresearch.com ARE NEW VERSIONS LIVING UP TO THEIR PROMISE? The PACS market globally is at various stages. In some parts of the world healthcare providers are buying PACS for the first time, for example in the Middle East and parts of Asia. Elsewhere, healthcare providers...
READ MOREAuthors: Dr. Bo Li PGY-3 Radiology Resident Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center New York, NY USA [email protected] Dr. Nolan Kagetsu Program Director and Vice Chairman Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center New York, NY USA Introduction A Japanese Samurai carried seven tools with him in preparation...
READ MOREAuthor: Nevra Elmas, MD Professor and Chair of Radiology Ege University Medical School Department of Radiology Izmir, Turkey HealthManagement Editorial Board member [email protected] Quality is the new frontier in radiology and the necessary step to improve patients’ outcomes and quality of care; more and more institutions, regions...
READ MOREAuthors: Dr. Wolf Schweitzer Forensic Pathologist University of Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine Zurich, Switzerland [email protected] www.virtopsy.com Prof. Dr. med. Michael Thali Director University of Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine Zurich, Switzerland Dipl. Ing., Robert Breitbeck...
READ MOREAuthors: Prof. Elisabeth Schouman-Claeys Head of Radiology Bichat Hospital Paris, France HealthManagement Editorial Board member [email protected] Prof. Olivier Clément Georges Pompidou European Hospital Paris, France Inherent in any technique of direct opacification (e.g. angiography), the injection...
READ MOREAuthors: Prof. Olivier Clément Georges Pompidou European Hospital Paris, France [email protected] Prof. Elisabeth Schouman-Claeys Head of Radiology Bichat Hospital Paris, France HealthManagement Editorial Board member Why did we settle for creatinine, abandoning the Cockcroft formula and express renal function...
READ MOREAuthor: Dr. Franco Orsi Director Unit of Interventional Radiology European Institute of Oncology Milan, Italy The clinical need for local tumour control, by means of a minimally invasive approach instead of traditional invasive, risky and expensive surgical ones, represents the main reason for the very fast development...
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