Author Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital / Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium [email protected] Prevention and treatment of severe pulmonary infections is the subject of this issue’s cover story. Lung...
READ MOREA newly discovered nociceptin receptor in the body might be important in the body’s response to sepsis, according to researchers. The body’s initial response to sepsis is to produce an intense reaction from the immune system to fight the infection. This involves activation of white blood cells, stress hormones and other substances, known as...
READ MOREAuthors Matthieu Boisson , MD Chief Resident of Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Poitiers Poitiers, France Inserm U1070, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France [email protected] Olivier Mimoz, MD, PhD...
READ MORENEHI, a national nonprofit health policy institute published a brief in November, which outlines best practices for tele-ICUs. While the technology used in the tele-ICUs surveyed in the United States is similar, practices vary. The NEHI argues that these emerging new patterns of use have the potential to make tele-ICU coverage more scalable...
READ MOREAuthors Martin Matejovic, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Head, ICU, 1st Medical Dept Faculty of Medicine in Plzen Charles University in Prague Teaching Hospital Plzen, Plzen, Czech Republic [email protected] Lenka Ledvinova, MD PhD Student ICU, 1st Medical Dept Faculty...
READ MOREAuthor Lieutenant Colonel Michael C. Reade, MBBS MPH DPhil FANZCA FCICM Intensivist & Australian Defence Force Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland and Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [email protected]...
READ MOREAuthor Christian P. Subbe, MD Senior Clinical Lecturer in Acute and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor University & Consultant in Acute, Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, UK [email protected] Rapid Response Systems (RRSs) improve timely referral...
READ MOREAuthors Dr. Mariam A. Alansari, MD, FRCSI Consultant Intensivist Department of Critical Care King Khalid University Hospital, College of Medicine-King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [email protected] Dr. A.H. Alzeer, FRCP (c ), FCCP Professor of Medicine and...
READ MOREAuthors David Pearson, MB BChir, MA (Cantab), FCICM Staff Specialist, Intensive Care Unit, Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia [email protected] & [email protected] Yoshiro Hayashi , MD, PhD Director of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical...
READ MOREAuthors Univ.-Prof. Gernot Marx , MD, FRCA Head Department for Intensive medicine and Intermediate care University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany Rainer Beckers, MPH, MA Managing Director ZTG Zentrum für Telematik und Telemedizin GmbH Bochum, Germany Ageing society will...
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