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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: The Era of Prevention
Authors Candelaria de Haro , MD Critical Care Centre, Hospital de Sabadell Corporació Sanitària i Universitària Parc Taulí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias Sabadell, Spain [email protected] Antonio Artigas , PhD Critical Care Centre, Hospital de Sabadell Corporació Sanitària i, Universitària Parc Taulí...
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Fluid Responsiveness: New Advances
Authors Xavier Monnet , MD, PhD Professor in Intensive Care Medicine Medical Intensive Care Unit Bicêtre Hospital Paris-South University Hospitals Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de, Paris Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France [email protected] Jean-Louis Teboul , MD Professor Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Sud University Le Kremlin-Bicêtre,...
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Airway Management in ICU: Three Years on from NAP4
Authors Tim M. Cook , BA (Hons), MBBS (Hons), FRCA, FFICM Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Jeremy P. Astin , MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), MRCP, FRCA Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia Fiona E. Kelly , BA (Hons), MBBS, MRCP, FRCA, DICM, FFICM Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Royal United...
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Authors David Osman , MD Medical Intensive Care Unit Paris-South University Hospitals Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France Isabelle Boytchev, MD Department of Gastroenterology Paris-South University Hospitals Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France Intensivists are regularly confronted with the questi
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Metabolic and Nutritional Issues in the ICU
Authors Olav Rooyackers , PhD Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Division of Anaesthesia at CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Jan Wernerman, MD PhD Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Division of Anaesthesia at CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Senior Consultant...
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Diaphragmatic Ultrasonography: an Underutilised Tool
Authors Alain Broccard , MD, FCCP Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical Director of Critical Care and Respiratory Services Fairview Southdale Hospital Edina, MN, USA [email protected] Damien Tagan , MD, MHA Lecturer, Lausanne University Head of Medical...
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Neurocritical Care in India
Author Pravin Amin, MD, FCCM Head, Department of Critical Care Medicine Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences Mumbai, India Globally neurocritical care is a well-established field in medicine. In India this discipline has developed in the major cities. However, elsewhere it is found wanting. The high incidence...
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CPR Instruction from Emergency Call Handlers Increases Child Survival
Children who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are more likely to survive and have good brain function if call handlers/ dispatchers instruct bystanders on CPR, according to a large Japanese study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “Dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR increased bystander CPR delivery rate and was...
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Not Enough Kidney Patients Receive Home Dialysis, Says Australian Study
Many kidney failure patients in Australia who could benefit from undergoing dialysis at home are being treated in hospitals and dialysis units, according to a study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). This is creating significant costs for healthcare providers and causing unnecessary disruptions to patients'...
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Depression Hits More than One in Three Critical Illness Survivors
Depression affects more than one out of three survivors of critical illness, according to one of the largest studies to investigate the mental health and functional outcomes of critical care survivors, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. With around 5 million patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States alone,...
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