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Safety in the Intensive Care Unit: Daily Goal Sheet
Authors Mariam Ali Alansari, MD,FRCSI Consultant Intensivist,Critical Care Unit Salmaniya Medica Complex,Manama,Bahrain [email protected] Khalid Maghrabi, MD Consultant Intensivist,Section of Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine King Faisal Specialist Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Although...
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The Greece Healthcare System
Authors Gregory Roumeliotis , MPhil General Manager Cryo Save Balcanica Vice President of GHSMA [email protected] Stefanos Chronis , MSc Administrative Director Polyclinic Health Unit SA [email protected] The Country Greece covers an area of 131,957 km 2 , with hundreds of scattered islands...
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The Greece Hospital System
Author George J. Stathis Health Management Consultant President of GHSMA [email protected] The current hospital system in Greece is a direct result of Act 1397/1983 that established the National Health System (NHS). Laws that were later enforced brought about some changes, but did not modify the basic characteristics...
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Greece Health News
Hospitals Run on Scant Staff Many state hospitals are operating at below the emergency-staff level due to a chronic absence of personnel, says the leader of the country's hospital workers' union. Even university hospitals are unable to maintain self-sufficient specialist units as there are too few employees to staff them, according...
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ISICEM 2008 Congress Review
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Dept of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels,Belgium 28th ISICEM –Reflections The 28th ISICEM, held in Brussels from March 18-21, was attended by almost 5000 participants from 84 countries. With a program of more than 700 separate sessions, it is difficult...
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Esicm Congress Preview: Controversies in Critical Care
Authors Andrew Rhodes Chairman of the ESICM Congress Committee Rui P Moreno ESICM President Elect The 21st Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from September 21-24, 2008. This congress is likely to be the biggest critical care meeting taking...
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ESICM Tackles Tough Issue During Silver Anniversary in Berlin
Author Jeannie Wurz, BA Medical Writer/Editor Department of Intensive Care Medicine Bern University Hospital and University of Bem, Switzerland (on behalf of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine) [email protected] More than 4900 intensive care practitioners converged on Berlin between...
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An Interview with Prof. Antonio Artigas
Professor Antonio Artigas has been managing the Critical Care Centre at Sabadell Hospital in Barcelona, Spain since 1988. He spoke at length with Sherry Scharff at the 13th International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patient in Athens, Greece, a meeting he heads. In this discussion, he describes the successes he has experienced...
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The Overview of Healthcare in Brazil
National Health Policies and Plans The national health policy is based on the Federal Constitution of 1988, which sets out the principles and directives for the delivery of healthcare in the country through the Unified Health System (SUS). Under the constitution, the activities of the federal government are to be based on multi-year plans approved...
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Quality of Care in Paediatric Emergencies
Author Patrick Van de Voorde , MD Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine Ghent University Hospital Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium [email protected] Timely and adequate medical care significantly reduces morbidity and mortality in (paediatric) emergencies. However,...
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