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We Need to Connect
For this "After ICU" edition of ICU Management, Managing Editor Sherry Scharff sat down with Jean-Daniel Chiche to discuss a range of engaging topics including the allure of intensive care medicine as a specialty, the need to push away from the "hero" culture and the importance of being human. What Brought You to the Field of Intensive Care?...
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After ICU
Introduction Intensive care medicine is quite a recent medical discipline born around 1950. At the beginning, the medical world held an illusion that new highly sophisticated techniques would allow for the recovery of every single patient. A half century later, the discipline has grown up and there is a realisation that while many more lives...
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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in the Medical Patient
Authors Chadwick P. Smith , MS, FACC Fellow Department of Surgical Education, Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida, USA [email protected] Michael L. Cheatham, MD, FACS, FCCM Director Department of Surgical Education Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida, USA...
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Reducing Medication Errors and Improving Patient Safety
Authors Katie Went, BSc(Hons), PhD Research Assistant School of Computing University of Dundee Dundee, Scotland [email protected] Ian Ricketts, BSc, PhD, FBCS, FRSA, FRSM, MIT, MIEEE, ACM Chair of Assistive Systems and Healthcare Computing, and Professor School of Computing University of Dundee Dundee, Scotland [email protected]...
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Treating the Patient and Their Families
For this special issue of ICU Management, Professor Saïd Hachimi-Idrissi, Head of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital of Brussels (UZ Brussels) took Managing Editor Sherry Scharff on a tour of the unit and sat down to talk about the challenges of managing paediatric patients, maintaining staff levels and avoiding burnout....
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Intensive Care Medicine in Spain
In Spain, the first units for critically ill patients, which appeared during the 1970s, were managed by anaesthetists, internists and, to a lesser extent, by cardiologists and pneumologists. The need for continuous and specific care of these critically ill patients represented the basis and origin of the specialty known as Intensive Care Medicine....
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Control of an Outbreak of Linezolid-Resistant
Staphyococcus Aureus in a Spanish Intensive Care Department Author Miguel Sanchez Garcia, MD, PhD Intensive Care Department Hospital Clínico San Carlos Madrid, Spain [email protected] A 12-patient outbreak with linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LRSA) developed in our intensive...
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New Developments in Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)
Author Olivier Joannes-Boyau, MD Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Department II University Hospital of Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux 2 Pessac, France [email protected] Patrick M. Honoré, MD ICU Head of Clinics, Universitair Ziekenhis Brussel Vrije Universitieit Brussel (VUB) Brussels,...
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The Changing Face of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Authors Chadwick P. Smith, MD, FACS Fellow Department of Surgical Education, Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida, USA [email protected] Michael L. Cheatham, MD, FACS, FCCM Director Department of Surgical Education, Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida, USA [email protected]...
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Swedish Healthcare: Overview of the Health System
Author Natalia Marczewska Editorial Assistant ICU Management Providing healthcare for just under 9.5 million people ( www.scb.se ), the Swedish national healthcare system is regularly ranked as one of the best in the world and continues to improve through innovative solutions and investment in the latest technology....
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