How many new radiologists graduate each year in Russia and what is the total number of radiologists already working there? There are no official statistics for the number of new radiologists graduating each year. However, according to the number of teaching sites we can estimate that there are around 400-500 new radiologists annually. Officially we...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief, ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital / Free University of Brussels. Brussels, Belgium [email protected] Organ interactions in critical illness may occur more often than we realise and physicians’ failure to recognise and react to such scenarios is leading...
READ MOREA single dose of an investigational anti-inflammatory drug called inclacumab significantly reduces damage to heart muscle during angioplasty, a recent international clinical trial has found. The study, which was led by Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, Director of the Research Centre at the Montreal Heart Institute, affiliated with the University of...
READ MORECommonly prescribed to lower blood sugar in diabetic patients, GLP-1 medications appears to also protect these patients from developing heart failure, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The retrospective study looked at 4,427 diabetic patients who were taking blood-sugar-lowering medications at Henry Ford Hospital...
READ MOREAuthor Samir K. Shah , MD Resident Department of General Surgery Cleveland Clinic , Ohio, US Daniel G. Clair, MD Professor and Chair of Department of Vascular Surgery Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute...
READ MOREAuthors Jared A. Greenberg, MD Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Chicago, US [email protected] John P. Kress, MD Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine,...
READ MOREThe unique challenges in developing early warning for children have led to a patient-specific early warning approach. The methodology, which is based on the altered patterns of physiological derangement, associated with compensation and decompensation in clinical deterioration rather than population normal distributions, is suitable for patients...
READ MOREDoctor Sean Bagshaw, Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta, Canada, supported by a Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Nephrology, has played an active and influential role in the research of clinical, epidemiological and translational issues related to acute kidney...
READ MOREOptimisation of percutaneous and surgical tracheostomy techniques is one of the challenges of modern intensive care unit (ICU) management. Different percutaneous tracheostomies (PTs) have been developed worldwide over the years. Ciaglia, in North America, described the multiple-step dilational tracheostomy; Griggs, in Australia, defined the guidewire...
READ MOREPolicies for the management and control of risks associated with healthcare constitute one of the priorities of the modern health systems. Like most European countries, the Ministry of Health in Italy has recognised the importance of assessing quality and safety on all levels of the system, taking into account patient expectations and enhancing...
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