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SCCM’s Annual Congress: Improving Patient Care
Stay abreast of new developments, obtain needed tools to help advance your knowledge and further your practice of critical care at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 36th Critical Care Congress. Regardless of your profession or role in the critical care team, the Congress will offer you a well-rounded perspective on the latest diagnosis and treatment...
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Preparing for Disaster
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium As critical care specialists, we are accustomed to combating life-threatening illness and injury on a daily basis. Our staff must be vigilant and must be prepared to respond rapidly to any deterioration...
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Industry
Biosite ® Incorporated Introduces Triage ® MeterPro™ www.biosite.com Biosite ® Incorporated recently unveiled its thirdgeneration testing platform, the Triage ® MeterPro™ at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) 2006 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA. According to a Biosite PRNewswire...
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World
WHO Finds Most Countries Fall Short of Ensuring a Safe Blood Supply www.who.int World Blood Donor Day was June 14, 2006. To mark the occasion, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an announcement stating that the world is making slow progress towards the goal of 100%unpaid, voluntary blood donation. According to the WHO, regular,...
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Tertiary Intensive Care to Victims Repatriated to Europe After the 2004 Tsunami disaster
Author Marc Maegele, M.D. Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery Intensive Care Unit of the Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery (Director: Prof. Dr. Bertil Bouillon, M.D.) Cologne-Merheim Medical Center (CMMC) University of Witten/Herdecke E-Mail: [email protected] Individuals...
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Benefits of a Separate Airway Emergency Response Team
Authors Brian L. Smith, RCP, R.R.T. Administrative/Clinical Director, Respiratory Care Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine [email protected] Sherif Afifi, MD, FCCM, FCCP Chief, Division of Critical Care...
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An Overview of the Healthcare System in Portugal
Author Ana Luisa Jardim, MD ICU – H. Capuchos, Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] www.icu-management.org Healthcare is on every country’s political agenda, especially because of the need to find solutions to the continuing increase in cost while meeting the challenge, felt by every healthcare...
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Intensive Care Medicine in Portugal
Author Rui Moreno MD, PhD Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente (UCIP) Hospital de St. António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar d Lisboa (Zona Central) Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] The first intensive care units (ICUs) in Portugal were created in the late 1950s in Coimbra (Rui...
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Intensive Care Training in Portugal
Authors Teresa Fevereiro, MD Luisa Amado, MD Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente (UCIP) Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa, Zona Central Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] Since the inception of the first Portuguese intensive care unit (ICU)...
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Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine in Portugal
Author Ricardo Matos, MD Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalentes (UCIP) Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa (Zona Central) Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] One of the most remarkable aspects of the evolution of medicine in Portugal in the last decade...
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