Authors Sonia O. Labeau , MNSc Faculty of Healthcare University College Ghent, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Ghent University [email protected] Stijn I. Blot , PhD Faculty of Healthcare, University College Ghent Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences...
READ MOREAuthor Stephen R. Baker , MD Professor and Chairman of Radiology New Jersey Medical School New York, US [email protected] The United States (US) healthcare agenda is the major domestic debate of President Obama’s presidency. He had made revamping of the US’ pluralistic medical delivery system...
READ MOREContact ECRI Institute Europe Weltech Centre, Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 2AA, United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax. +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] Purchase Considerations Included in the accompanying comparison chart are ECRI Institute’s recommendations for minimum performance...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels,Brussels, Belgium [email protected] In the current financial climate, a more discerning eye has been placed on the costs of public services and...
READ MOREwww.dh.gov.uk A database launched recently will help identify the incidence and causes of sudden cardiac death and save the lives of people who may currently be at risk from the inherited heart condition that can strike without warning. Designed by pathologists and cardiologists, and funded by the Department of Health, the database...
READ MOREwww.emory.edu The use of ultrasound waves for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) may help dissolve blood clots in less time than using clot-busting drugs alone, according to researchers at Emory University. "These clots are a main cause of both heart attacks and stroke and the more quickly you can eliminate them the better," says Karthikeshwar...
READ MOREAuthor Katja E. Wartenberg, MD, PhD Division of Neurocritical Care and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany [email protected] Stroke care in the intensive care unit is focussed on stabilisation...
READ MOREAuthor Robert D. Barraco, MD, MPH Section Chief Geriatric Trauma,Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA [email protected] In this, our second in a series of articles concerning the impact of the aging population in our ICUs, we address the care of the injured elderly. The...
READ MOREAuthors Jérôme Pugin, MD Professor, Head Physician Intensive Care Department,University Hospitals of Geneva Switzerland [email protected] Vandack Nobre, MD Research Fellow Intensive Care Department, University Hospitals of Geneva Switzerland ...
READ MOREAuthors Guido Bertolini, MD Laboratorio di Epidemiologia Clinica Istituto di Ricerche "Mario Negri" Ranica (Bergamo), Italy [email protected] Martin Langer Università degli Studi di Milano Fondazione IRCCS-Istituto Nazionale Tumori Milano, Italy Daniele...
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