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Rationale Behind Practice: Landiolol in Critical Care
A summary of data regarding the use of landiolol as a potential immunomodulator in septic patients and its effectiveness and safety in the management of new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF). Cardiovascular Dysfunction and Sepsis Cardiovascular dysfunction is a common complication of sepsis. Approximately 40 to 50% of patients...
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Gastric Residual Volume – Monitoring and Management
An overview of critical care guidelines for enteral nutrition (EN) and the use of gastric residual volume (GRV) management and monitoring as an essential component of EN patient care to help prevent complications. Malnutrition in Critically Ill and the Use of Enteral or Parenteral Nutrition Disease-related malnutrition is a common...
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One Sepsis Fits All? Are There Different Phenotypes of Sepsis? Diagnostic Approaches and Therapies
This article presents current research results in relation to an advanced sepsis classification and their implications for new treatment options and research strategies. Introduction Through history, the definiti on and the term sepsis changed. Since Semmelweis and others formulated the thesis that sepsis was caused by a systemic reaction...
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Sepsis in Critical Care
Sepsis is a leading cause of admission to the ICU and is associated with a high mortality rate. Join our panellists as they discuss the impact of sepsis in critical care, characteristics of patients with sepsis, causative factors, and effective preventive and therapeutic interventions. Moderator Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management...
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The Future of Healthcare in the Wake of COVID-19 - Time for a Paradigm Shift
This paper explores the future of healthcare as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of complex systems theory and the pillars of integrated care. Key Points COVID-19 has exposed and amplified the inequities in our health and care systems. In seeking to address these inequities, we need to recognise that health...
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Surge Operations Call Center: Managing Capacity Through Innovation and Collaboration
Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, a newly developed Surge Operations Call Center (SOCC) averted overload in individual Central Ohio hospitals by directing patients to hospitals with available beds and staff. Key Points The SOCC, designed to load balance patients during emergencies to network hospitals according to bed and staff capacity,...
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Telehealth Platforms: The Foundation for Digital Transformation
An overview of the role of digital transformation in the healthcare space, particularly the adoption of telehealth solutions during the pandemic and an outlook of the future of telehealth solutions and the momentum of digitalisation in healthcare. Key Points During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation efforts in healthcare...
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Autonomous Delivery of Medical Material Through Drones in a Future Pandemic
An overview of the logistic challenges during the pandemic, the use of drones to trigger logistic advancements both in normal operational conditions and in emergency situations, and the new set of possibilities introduced by autonomous drones to reduce legacy vulnerabilities of healthcare systems. Key Points COVID-19 highlighted the need...
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The Importance of Syncope Assessment, Diagnosis and Management
Professor Michele Brignole is the the coordinator of the Faint & Fall programme at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Cardiology of Ospedali del Tigullio, Lavagna, Italy. Prof Brignole’s main fields of research are diagnosis, pathophysiology, therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and...
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