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The Evolving Role of Critical Care Medicine in Disaster Medical Response
Author J. Christopher Farmer, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN 507-255-3275 [email protected] Overview We have traditionally focused on the pre-hospital care setting as the primary building block of our disaster medical response...
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Tight Glycemic Control During Critical Illness: Overcoming the Obstacles
Author Stanley A. Nasraway, Jr., MD, FCCM Director Surgical Intense Care Units Professor Surgical Medicine and Anesthesia Department of Surgery, Tufts-New England Medical Center Washington St., Boston, MA 02111 [email protected] Salient literature is reviewed describing the benefits...
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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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Multiple Medical Gas Monitors, Respired/Aesthetic
Introduction This product comparison covers stand-alone and modular multiple medical gas monitors (MMGMs) that can determine concentrations of aesthetic and respiratory gases (oxygen [O 2 ], nitrous oxide [N 2 O], carbon dioxide [CO 2 ] and halogenated agents) in the patient breathing circuit during anaesthesia. MMGMs continuously sample...
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Communication with Families in the ICU
Authors Ronald Pauldine , MD, Fellow Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA Todd Dorman [email protected] Effective communication is key when working with ICUpatients’...
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EU News
EU Ban on Measuring Instruments Containing Mercury. The EU Commission intends to introduce a ban on the use of measuring equipment containing mercury. The proposal is part of the EU’s strategy on mercury to reduce the amount of toxic mercury which ends up in waste disposal sites. Until now, individual EU States have worked to different regulations....
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Spanish National Health System
Author Juan Roca Guiseris, MD President of Spanish Society Critical Care and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) Critical Care and Emergency Department Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain [email protected] This article presents a description of the Spanish...
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Educational Programme on Intensive Care Medicine in Spain
Author Dr Gumersindo Gonzalez Diaz Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain [email protected] This article describes the development of intensive care medicine in Spain as a primary speciality and its specific, five-year training programme, initiated...
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Pre-Hospital Care of Critically Ill Patients in Catalonia: Past, Present and Future
Authors Gilberto Alonso Fernández, M.D. Regional Chief. Catalan Emergency Medical System Fernando García Alfranca, M.D. Director. Catalan Emergency Medical System Antonio Artigas Raventós, M.D, Ph. D. Director. Critical Care Department Sabadell Hospital, Spain...
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Global Challenges, Patient Centred Solutions
Author Dr Andrew Rhodes Chair, Division of Scientific Affairs, ESICM [email protected] Dr. Rhodes previews the interaction, learning and dissemination of scientific knowledge offered by the ESICM’s annual Congress in September. This year, the 19th annual congress of the European Society...
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