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Medical Error, Harm and Patient Safety
Join our panellists on March 1 at 16:00 CET as they discuss the prevalence and types of medical errors in the ICU, the psychological impact of these errors, and strategies to prevent them and improve the safety of critically ill patients. Moderator Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management & Practice Professor Department...
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Patient Safety in the ICU: Exploring Trends in Adverse Events in ICUs
Adverse events (AEs) are common among critically ill patients. Evidence about the nature, preventability and predictability of AEs can be used to reinvest in efforts to reduce them and improve patient safety in ICUs. Case Mr. A, a previously well 70-year-old male was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory...
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Information Transfer as a Strategy to Improve Safety in ICU
The transmission of information (TOI) in extremely variable environments, such as the ICU, is crucial. The content and how it is transmitted can be decisive in the safe care of the critical patient. Introduction In an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), we attend people with a wide range of pathologies. All the information obtained...
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Doing More Can Be Worse: Ten Common Errors in the ICU
Some of the most common interventions in the ICU can be associated with poor results. We present ten situations in which doing less is better for the critically ill patient. Introduction For decades, the focus of patient management in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has been to perform a large number of interventions in critically ill patients,...
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The Role of a Mortality Review Committee in a Paediatric and Maternity Hospital
There is little information in the current literature on the organisation of mortality review committees in paediatric and maternity hospitals. This article aims to explain the objectives and function of the mortality review committee of our hospital, an articulated tool to improve the quality of patient care based on reviews of deaths in our centre....
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Estimated Plasma Volume Status
An overview of estimated plasma volume (ePVS), recent evidence supporting the association of ePVS with clinical congestion and whether it can help improve outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). Plasma volume (PV) is the level of intravascular fluid minus the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. PV in heart failure (HF) patients...
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MARCH 1 ICU Management & Practice DigiConf Medical Error, Harm and Patient Safety Virtual Event https://iii.hm/1eh6 22-25 41st ISICEM Brussels, Belgium https://iii.hm/1eei 24-25 8th International Conference on Surgery & Anesthesia London, UK https://iii.hm/1eej APRIL 18-21...
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Labs and Drugs
The delivery of high-quality healthcare and the effective treatment of acute and chronic illnesses cannot be achieved without drugs with high efficacy and safety and with laboratories working in the background to undertake basic research and understand the processes behind diseases, mechanism of action of different molecules and presentation of symptoms...
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Radiomics: Recent Trends and Assessing Research Quality
Dr Renato Cuocolo, radiologist and research fellow at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, recently spoke at the 2021 European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) Annual Meeting about the challenges in assessing research quality in radiomics. Given radiomics’ transformative potential for medical imaging, HealthManagement.org met...
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Looking for Lessons to Support ICS Digital Plans for Integrated Care
Plans for digitally-enabled integrated care can look great on paper, but what needs to happen for them to succeed on the ground? As policy accelerates in the UK, Dr Meetali Kakad, chief medical officer at Dignio, takes a snapshot look at lessons from around the world. Key Points Emerging digital plans in integrated care...
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