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Mobility in Care
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Critical care has traditionally been administered through intensive care units and emergency departments attached to a hospital. In this setting, intensivists, nurses and other medical specialists...
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ASPE Releases First-Ever Treatment Guidelines for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain www.paineducators.org The American Society of Pain Educators (ASPE) published consensus guidelines for the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.This is the first set of guidelines...
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Equipment Challenges During Critical Care Aeromedical Evacuation
Authors Elizabeth Bridges, PhD RN CCNS, Lt Col USAFR NC University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, USA Clinical Investigations Facility, Travis AFB, USA Joseph Schmelz, PhD RN, Lt Col USAF NC (Ret) Karen Evers, MSN RN, Lt Col, USAF NC (Ret) D. Johnson PhD RN, Col USAFR...
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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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How to Use Data Analysis from Clinical Information Systems to Help Manage Intensive Care Units
Author Michael Imhoff, MD PhD Department for Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany [email protected] Secondary analysis of patient-related data from clinical information systems offers potential for ICU management support, quality and cost improvements....
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An Interview with Dr. Peter Angood
Author Peter Angood, , MD, FRCS(C) FACS FCCM Vice-President & Chief Patient Safety Officer Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Chief Patient Safety Officer & Co-Director Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety [email protected] Dr. Peter Angood served...
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Added Value from Nursing Research
Authors Christina Jones, BSc, MPhil, PhD, Dip, Couns Nurse Consultant Critical Care Follow-up, Intensive Care Unit, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK & Intensive Care Research Group, Dept. of Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK [email protected] Christina Jones discusses the ways in...
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Institution Series: Court of Justice
Author Sonja Planitzer Editor European Affairs The Court of Justice of the European Communities (“the Court” or ECJ) is the judicial institution of the European Union (EU). It was originally established under the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952 and is based in Luxemburg. The Court upholds the Treaties of the EU and...
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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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