Learning takes center stage in Music City, where SCCM’s Congress never sounded so good. The Society’s annual Congress is the largest multiprofessional critical care event of the year, drawing nearly 6,000 nurses, pharmacists, physicians, respiratory therapists, students, veterinarians, and other providers from around the world. You’ll know you’re...
READ MOREAuthor Dominique M. Vandijck, MSc,MA Department of Intensive Care Medicine Ghent University Hospital,Interfaculty Centre for Health Economic Research Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Ghent University,Ghent,Belgium [email protected] The approach of using biomarkers for diagnosing and assessing illness...
READ MOREAuthor Robert D. Barraco , MD, MPH, FACS,FCCP Associate Director of Trauma,Chief of Geriatric Trauma Department of Surgery Division of Trauma-Surgical Critical Care Lehigh Valley Hospital,Allentown,Pennsylvania,USA [email protected] The Baby Boom has become the Elder Explosion. According to U.S. Census...
READ MOREAuthors Rebecca Anas, B.Sc, MBA Project Manager Strategic Decisions, Critical Care Department [email protected] Fabrice Brunet , MD, FRCPC Professor of Medicine,University of Toronto Chief, Critical Care Department Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute [email protected] David Klein MD FRCP(C) MBA...
READ MOREAuthor Kees H. Polderman , MD, PhD Associate Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Dept. of Intensive Care Utrecht University Medical Center,Utrecht,The Netherlands [email protected]@umcutrecht.nl Regional temperature differences exist between various parts of the body under physiological conditions in healthy...
READ MOREHospitals In 2000 Israel had 48 general hospitals, with approximately 14 200 beds, spread throughout the country. The overall general care bed-population ratio is 2.2. Compared to OECD countries Israel is characterised by a low bed-population ratio, an extremely low average length of stay, a mid to high rate of admissions per thousand population...
READ MOREAuthor Gabriel M. Gurman, M.D. Professor Emeritus,Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Ben Gurion University of the Negev,Beer Sheva,Israel [email protected] Most practitioners would agree that there lie inevitable connections between the fields of anaesthesiology and intensive care, as the tasks that define them are almost...
READ MOREAuthor Freda DeKeyser Ganz RN, PhD Head Master Program Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] Nursing education in Israel has been undergoing academic upgrading, including a revised post-basic certification course in Intensive Care Nursing allowing nurses increased clinical...
READ MOREAuthors Rabia Khalaila RN, MPH, PhD Head Nurse,Internal Medicine ICU Hadassah-Ein Kerem Medical Centre Jerusalem, Israel Anwar Kabaha, RN, BSN Yana Tarnovsky, RN, BSN Internal Medicine ICU Hadassah-Ein Kerem Medical Centre Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] Introduction Physical assessment...
READ MOREAuthor Julie Benbenishty, RN BA ICU Chairperson Israeli EBN, Habrew Medical Organisation Hebrew University School of Nursing Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] The population in Israel is a little above 7 million people. At the end of 2007 there were 54,899 registered nurses in the country; 4.4 registered nurses...
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