Professor Rinaldo Bellomo, Australia Rinaldo Bellomo is the Director of Intensive Care Research at Austin Health in Melbourne; Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne Australia; Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, The...
READ MORECOMPANY NAMES American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Aliso Viejo, CA Kathryn Roberts Maureen Seckel Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington,...
READ MOREYour Role: Your role is to be a neutral observer, with fresh eyes, of what you see during your ICU visit. We would like you to pay particular attention to the PEOPLE (patients, staff and family visitors): how they work, how they flow, how they affect the care and safety of patients. You may...
READ MOREYour Role: Your role is to be a neutral observer, with fresh eyes, of what you see during your ICU visit. We would like you to pay particular attention to the TECHNOLOGY AND SPACE of the ICU and how they help or hinder the care and safety of patients. If you have questions, please check with...
READ MOREYour Role: Your role is to be a neutral observer, with fresh eyes, of what you see during your ICU visit. We would like you to pay particular attention to the WORK PROCESSES: how patients, staff and family visitors interact and flow through the ICU, and how they affect the care and safety of...
READ MORESevere Sepsis: Are Outcomes Better if Hospitals Treat a High Volume of Patients? A study from the Boston University School of Medicine, published recently in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, looked at the associations between hospital sepsis caseload and outcomes, and found that academic hospitals with higher severe...
READ MOREAuthors Alan D. Ravitz , PE 1 Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD 2-4 Adam Sapirstein, MD 2,3 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, USA. 1 ; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, USA 2 ; School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University,...
READ MOREAuthors Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM 1-3 Clifford S. Deutschman, MS, MD, FCCM 4,9 Kathryn E. Roberts, MSN, RN, CNS 5 Alan D. Ravitz, PE 6 Bradford D. Winters, PhD, MD, FCCM 1,2 Jo M. Leslie , MBA 1 Douglas S. Solomon, PhD, MPH...
READ MOREAuthors Federico Longhini, MD Department of Translational Medicine Eastern Piedmont University “A. Avogadro” Novara, Italy Gianmaria Cammarota, MD, PhD Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care “Maggiore Della Carità” Hospital Novara, Italy Rosanna Vaschetto, MD, PhD Department...
READ MOREAuthors Alain Combes, MD Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit iCAN, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition Hôpital de la Pitié–Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France [email protected] Guillaume Lebreton , MD Cardiac Surgery...
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