Author Jennifer M Hunter, MB ChB PhD FRCA Chairman Scientific Programme Committee, ESA University Department of Anaesthesia Clinical Sciences, Liverpool, UK [email protected] Euroanaesthesia 2007 takes ESA members to the beautifully elegant Bavarian city of Munich for the first time this...
READ MOREAuthor Pär I. Johansson MD, MPA Medical Director Transfusion Service, HS Blood bank Rigshospitalet/National University Hospita´l Blegdamsvej 9 Dk 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [email protected] In addition to its more common, approved uses, activated recombinant coagulation factor VII...
READ MOREAuthors Michael R. Pinsky, MD, Dr hc Michael A. DeVita, MD Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh, USA [email protected] Medical emergency teams responding to bedside caregiver-activated calls, triggered by deterioration in defined, continuously measured...
READ MOREAuthors Ravindranath Tiruvoipati, FRCSEd Christopher Harvey, MRCS Giles J Peek, MD, FRCS (CTh) Department of ECMO and Cardiac Surgery Glenfield Hospital Leicester, United Kingdom . This article reviews the practices that are evidence-based in managing adult patients with acute...
READ MOREAuthors Jeannie Wurz, BA Dept. of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland Jukka Takala, MD, PhD Dept. of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland [email protected] Introduction Designing an intensive...
READ MOREProfessor Ola Stenqvist is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist in the Department of Anaesthesia at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and a professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Gothenburg University. Professor Stenqvest recently developed two new ventilation monitoring technologies now produced by GE...
READ MOREAuthor Guttorm Brattebø, MD Dept. of Anesthesia & Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Norway [email protected] Some national emergency systems regularly send specially trained doctors (often anesthetists) out of the hospital in emergencies (e.g. Germany and France),...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium The 27 th International Symposiumof Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) will be held at the Congress Center in Brussels from March 27 to 30, 2007, and we are looking forward to another...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. S. K. Jawahar, MHA (AIIMS), DNB (Health Admin) Administrative Medical Officer, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India [email protected] www.sctimst.ac.in India, a country with a centuries-old heritage of medical science,...
READ MOREAuhors JR Raja, MD.EDIC Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK [email protected] N Ramakrishnan AB (Med), AB (Crit.care), FCCP, FCCM, MMM Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India Dr. Raja and colleague analyze the key differences...
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