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READ MOREAuthor Dr. Thomas Heidegger (above) Consultant Anaesthetist Quality Manager in Healthcare Department of Anaesthesia, Walenstadt, Switzerland [email protected] Dr. Hans Joerg Gerig Consultant Anaesthetist Department of Anaesthesiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen...
READ MOREAuthor L. Chelluri, MD, MPH Professor of Critical Care Medicine Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA, US [email protected] Improvements in life-sustaining technologies in the past few decades have resulted in an increase in...
READ MOREAuthor Mariam Alansari MD, FRCSI Consultant Intensivist, Intensive Care Unit Salmaniya Medical Complex Ministry of Health, Manama, Bahrain [email protected] In most hospitals, medical services are overstretched and senior house officers (SHOs) in particular, have to spread themselves thinly over...
READ MOREAuthor Scot A. Mountain (picture above) [email protected] Bradley S. Quon The Department of Medicine University of British, Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Najib T. Ayas (picture below) Sleep Disorders Program and Respiratory and Critical Care Divisions...
READ MOREAuthors Hans Ulrich Rothen, MD, PhD Ludger Mende, MD Department of Intensive, Care Medicine Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) Bern, Switzerland [email protected] In recent years, obesity has emerged as a major problem, both generally in terms of public health, and at a more personal...
READ MOREAuthor Bjørn Magne Eggen Director of the Clinic of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway Organisation of the Healthcare System More than 85% of all healthcare expenditures are publicly covered. The 431 municipalities/communes, with population size ranging from 250-500,000 inhabitants,...
READ MOREAuthor Pål Klepstad MD, PhD Medical Director, Department of Intensive Care St Olavs University Hospital Trondheim, Norway [email protected] A key issue in Norwegian ICU care is how to give adequate ICU treatment to all patients despite a scattered population and geographically and meteorologically...
READ MOREDr. Nils Smith-Erichsen is a Consultant in the ICU at Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. He shares his views on Intensive Care in Norway. Please Tell Us About Your Experiences Working as an Intensivist in Norway. When I began as a full-time intensivist in 1979, only a few colleagues were in the same position in Norway....
READ MOREAuthors Stephen A. Bernard, MD Director of Critical Care, Knox Private Hospital Wantirna, Victoria, Australia Louis Brusco, MD, FCC M Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, Hospital Center New York, New York, US Hiroyuki Hirasawa, MD Professor...
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