Authors Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD David S. Kwon, MD Henry Ford Health Systems, Department of Surgery, Detroit, USA Douglas R. Hamilton, MD, PhD Ashot E. Sargsyan, MD Shannon Melton, BSc Wyle Laboratories, Houston, USA Scott A. Dulchavsky [email protected]...
READ MOREAuthor M.Claire McManus, Pharm.D. Pharmacy Department, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, USA [email protected] At Caritas St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, a multidisciplinary care group successfully devised and implemented a Sepsis Protocol for the hospital. Medical, pharmacy and nursing...
READ MOREVentilated Patients Authors R. Ferrer A. Navas A. Artigas Critical Care Center, Sabadell Hospital, Parc Tauli University Institute, Barcelona Autonomous University, Spain Ricard Ferrer [email protected] Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) still remains a leading cause of morbidity...
READ MOREAuthor MariamA. Al-Ansari, MD, FRCSI Consultant Intensivist, Salmaniya Medical Complex Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain [email protected] . Airway management in obstetric patients carries significant risk of complications. Introduction The potential need...
READ MOREIntroduction 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...
READ MOREAuthors 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...
READ MOREEU 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....
READ MOREAuthors Charles L. Sprung Director General Intensive Care Unit Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Hadassah University, Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel David Edbrooke Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK On Behalf of the ELDICUS investigators...
READ MOREAuthors Thomas Heidegger, MD, DEAA Quality Manager in Healthcare, Consultant Anaesthetist Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland [email protected] Detlef Saal, MD, DEAA Consultant Anaesthetist, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen Switzerland Yvonne Husemann,...
READ MOREAuthors David L. Edbrooke, FRCA Professor Intensive Care Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield, UK [email protected] Bertrand Guidet, MD Professor, Intensive Care Hospital St. Antoine Paris, France Akos Csomos, MD, DEAA Consultant, Intensive Care Markhot Teaching Hospital...
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