• Management of Delirium in Elderly Patients

    Robert D. Barraco, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCP Chief Sections of Geriatric Trauma and Trauma Outreach [email protected] Also Chair Institutional Ethics Committee Lehigh Valley Health Network Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA Delirium was described in the first century AD by Celsus as “mental disorders such as...

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  • Applying Transpulmonary Pressure in the ICU

    Tom Piraino, RRT Best Practice Clinical Educator Respiratory Therapy Services St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario [email protected] Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) Department of Anaesthesia (Critical Care) Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Mechanical ventilation...

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  • Simulation Training

    Saïd Hachimi-Idrissi, PhD, MD, FCCM Coordinator Clinical Skills and Simulation  Centre; Professor in Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and  Paediatrics; Head  PICU, and Chairman of the Cerebral Resuscitation Research Group University Hospital of Brussels (UZ Brussels) Brussels, Belgium [email protected]...

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  • Pocket-Sized Ultrasonic Stethoscopes

    Dr. Bruce J. Kimura Medical Director Cardiovascular Ultrasound Department of Cardiology [email protected] Dr. Stan A. Amundson Director Internal Medicine Residency Dr. David Shaw Director Graduate Medical Education Scripps Mercy Hospital San...

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  • Data Centre Trends in the Healthcare Sector

    Robert Forsyth Bruno Raeymaekers ARCADIS Community of Practice (COP) for Data Centers [email protected] Growing IT applications are taking a central position in the functioning of any healthcare facility. Existing sites are commonly relying on older IT and technical facilities, not able to support the new...

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  • Looking Back on 2011

    For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency medicine during the year just past, and identifying trends for the future. Each contributor provided...

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  • Technology as a Means of Supporting the Clinical Environment

    For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency medicine during the year just past, and identifying trends for the future. Each contributor provided...

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  • Uneven Distribution of Resources in the ICU

    For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency medicine during the year just past, and identifying trends for the future. Each contributor provided...

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  • Quality Measurement & Evaluation of ICU

    Prof. Dr. Dominique Vandijck Dept. of Public Health and Health Economics Dept. of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium Dept. of Health Economics and Patient Safety Hasselt University Hasselt, Belgium For years, some have tried to deny their value, but today we can no longer...

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  • Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in Bulgaria

    Zlatina Alexieva, MD Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Military Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria Nikolay Petrov, MD Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Military Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria The accession of Bulgaria as a member of the European Union in 2007, has meant...

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