All Articles
-
Euroanaesthesia 2006
Author Jennifer M Hunter, MB ChB PhD FRCA Chairman Elect Scientific Programme Committee, ESA University Department of Anaesthesia University Clinical Departments Liverpool [email protected] www.euroanesthesia.org Acknowledgement We thank Dr Gordon Drummond, who completes his term...
READ MORE -
Healthcare in the United States
Authors S. Sujanthy Rajaram, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Cooper University Hospital [email protected] Carolyn Bekes, MD, MHA Professor of Medicine Cooper University Hospital This article describes the healthcare system in the US, current issues, cost...
READ MORE -
Progress in Safety and Quality in ICU Care in the US?
Author Charles G. Durbin, Jr. MD, FCCM President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine [email protected] Scientific studies support delivery of ICU care by a multi-professional team of experts stationed at the patient’s bedside.A looming shortage of healthcare providers in the United States will threaten...
READ MORE -
Current State of Critical Care Medicine in the United States
Author Gerald A. Maccioli, MD, FCCM Chairman, American Society of Anaesthesiologists Committee on Critical Care Medicine President-Elect American Society of Critical Care Anaesthesiologists Director of Critical Care Medicine, Critical Health Systems of NC Raleigh Practice Centre [email protected]...
READ MORE -
Safety in Care
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Safety must be a key priority for any service driven industry where errors have the potential to cause harm to people (Dorman 2005). All humans make errors, and doctors are no exception. Each year the...
READ MORE -
Worldwide
UN Pandemic Planning and Preparedness www.undg.org To counter the direct impact that an influenza pandemic may have at a global level, the United Nations System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) has developed “UN System Pandemic Planning and Preparedness Guidelines”. These include checklists, templates and toolkits showing best practice....
READ MORE -
National
Haïti: Medicin Sans Frontières www.msf.be On August 2005 Medicine Sans Frontières (MSF) started an intervention in Cité Soleil, one of the most neglected and dangerous slums in Port au Prince, Haiti’s capital city, where 250,000 people live in poverty, violence and social instability. MSF re-opened Choscal Hospital (St. Catherine’s Hospital)...
READ MORE -
A Novel Collaborative Model to Improve ICU Care in Michigan
Authors Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD Dept. of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, USA [email protected] Christine A. Goeschel, RN, MPA, MPS Keystone Centre for Patient Safety and Quality Michigan Health and Hospital Association Lansing, USA...
READ MORE -
A New Risk-Adjustment System for IC
Authors Rui P. Moreno, MD, PhD, Prof. Unidade de Cuidados, Intensivos Polivalente, Hospital de St. António dos Capuchos, Lisboa, Portugal [email protected] Philipp G.H. Metnitz MD, PhD, Prof., DEAA Dept. of Anaesthesiology and General Intensive Care University Hospital of Vienna,...
READ MORE -
Objective Triage for the Elderly: ELDICUS Update
Authors 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 MORE
INFO
IMAGING
ICU
EXEC
IT
CARDIOLOGY
JOURNALS
EVENTS
FACULTY
PARTNERS
BLOG
VIDEOS
CONTACT US
