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READ MOREAuthor Ronald Pauldine, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, USA Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins...
READ MOREAuthor Constance A. Hoyt, MSN, RN University of California, Riverside, California, USA Critical care providers are often confronted with patients who may have been victims of crime, neglect or abuse. Nurses can easily combine their regular patient care duties with some basic forensic practices to help identify...
READ MOREAuthor Andrew Smith, FRCA, MRCP Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK Introduction The ‘patient safety’ movement has come about through an appreciation that the techniques and approaches that have been used to improve safety in other industries can be applied...
READ MOREProf. Claudio Ronco shares his management experience and vision as Director of the Nephrology Department at St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. May I Ask You, by Way of Introduction to Our Readers, How Long You’ve Been the Director of Your Unit? I have been director of the Department of Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation...
READ MOREAuthor Jacek Lukomski Director of Regional Hospital, Poznan Vice President of Union of Polish Health Care Employers, Poland The reforms of the healthcare system in Poland were initiated in 1989 along with the reforms of the national economy. Their positive effects were manifested mainly by shorter hospitalisations,...
READ MOREAuthor Adam Mikstacki, MD, PhD ESICM Council Member, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Regional Hospital, Poznan, Poland The development of intensive care (IC) in Poland has been closely connected to the advances in anaesthesiology....
READ MOREAuthor Prof. Andrzej Kuebler Head of Working Group for Sepsis, Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Poland On November 19 th , 2001 the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy established a Working Group for Sepsis, motivated by the increasing worldwide interest in the syndrome...
READ MOREIn 2007, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) will celebrate 25 years since it was founded in Geneva in 1982. To mark this anniversary, the Society’s Annual Congress in Berlin this year will combine the special celebrations with an exciting and novel scientific programme. ESICM’s Annual Congress has, over the recent...
READ MOREAuthors John A Myburgh PhD, FANZCA, FJFICM Chairman Simon R Finfer FRCP, FRCA, FJFICM Immediate Past Chairman Rinaldo Bellomo MD, FRACP, FJFICM Inaugural Chairman, ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Carlton, Australia Introduction The specialty of intensive...
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