Supension of Hydroxyethyl-Starch Solutions to be Re-Examined The European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has concluded that the benefits of infusion solutions containing hydroxyethyl-starch (HES) no longer outweigh their risks, and recommends that the marketing authorisations for these medicines be suspended....
READ MOREAuthor Teresa Pont, MD, PhD Intensive Care Doctor and Transplant Coordinator University Hospital Vall d’Hebron Barcelona, Spain [email protected] Thousands of patients are waiting for the phone call announcing that they may have a chance to live longer, better, or just to live. Organ donation has...
READ MOREAuthor Jonathan Ball, MRCP EDIC FCCP FFICM MSc MD Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in General and Neuro Intensive Care Care Group Lead, General ICU St George's Hospital and Medical School London, UK [email protected] This article presents best practice in organ donation, aimed at maximising...
READ MOREAuthors David M. Linton, MB ChB, FCA (SA), MPhil (Crit Care) Professor Medical Intensive Care Unit Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Jerusalem, Israel Sigal Sviri, MD Medical Intensive Care Unit Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Jerusalem, Israel ...
READ MOREAuthor Sven Staender, MD Professor Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Regional Hospital Maennedorf, Switzerland [email protected] Sven Staender (Chairman), on behalf of the EBA/ESA Task Force Patient Safety (Andrew Smith, Guttorm Brattebø, David Whitaker) The...
READ MOREAuthors Jean Baptiste Lascarrou, MD Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit District Hospital Center La Roche Sur Yon, France [email protected] Jean Reignier, MD, PhD Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit District Hospital Center La Roche Sur Yon,France...
READ MOREProfessor Djillali Annane is Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Versailles, Paris. He is the director of the general intensive care unit at Raymond Poincaré, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP). The unit is the largest ICU at the University Hospital of Paris, and has 36 beds, half of them high intensity...
READ MOREAuthor David Crippen, MD, FCCM Professor Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh,USA With a shortage of donor organs worldwide, measures are needed to improve rates of organ donation. In this paper Prof. David Crippen proposes that...
READ MOREDetermination of Death is Ethically Problematic Author Leslie Whetstine, PhD Associate Professor Division of Humanities, Walsh University North Canton, Ohio,USA In a typical Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death (DCDD) case, a patient is brought to the Emergency Department suffering...
READ MOREIndirect calorimetry is usually presented as essential equipment to optimise nutrition. However, numerous flaws limit its use, and currently available devices are not sufficiently accurate for clinical use. Why Use an Indirect Calorimeter in the ICU? The magnitude of the caloric debt (the difference between energy expenditure (EE)...
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