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New Web Resource For Intensive Care Clinicians www.maquet.com MAQUET Critical Care has launched a peer-topeer ventilation information source for intensive care clinicians interested in clinical applications in ventilation therapies. The site hosts an extensive amount of peer-to-peer material in different ventilation therapies,...
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Intra-Abdominal Hypertension:
Author Tim Wolfe, MD Associate Professor Department of Surgery, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA [email protected] Evidence that Early Detection and Management Improves Outcomes and Reduces Resource Utilisation Introduction There are several important issues concerning intra-abdominal...
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Pet Visitation Programmes in Critical Care: Positive Impact on Patient Outcomes
Authors Karen K. Giuliano, RN (above) Principal Scientist Philips Medical Systems, Andover, Massachusetts USA [email protected] Elaine R. Bloniasz, RN Clinical Nurse III Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts USA Peggy Lambert,...
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Cardiac Output Monitors: An Overview
Author Samir G. Sakka, MD, PhD, DEAA, EDIC Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Witten/Herdecke Medical Center Cologne- Merheim, Cologne, Germany [email protected] Although there is no evidence for an improved outcome of critically ill patients by measurement...
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Overview of Healthcare in Canada
Author Nathalie Danjoux, MSc Senior Policy Analyst Critical Care Secretariat,Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] "Through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require...
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Critical Care in Canada
Author Laura Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor Critical Care Medicine,University Health Network Toronto General Hospital,Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] The Canadian national health insurance program for many Canadians represents a fundamental and defining value of...
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Communication and Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit in Canada
Author James Downar, MD, FRCPC Clinical Fellow Division of Palliative Care, Division of Critical Care Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Communication is an important issue in the Canadian healthcare system. Recent studies have...
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Conflict Management
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Conflict arises in all fields and workplaces and in ICU Management we are not immune to issues of disagreement. On the contrary, our unique role as physicians to patients and managers...
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Conflicts in the ICU: Management and Resolution Practices
Author Nathalie Danjoux, MSc Senior Policy Analyst, Critical Care Secretariat Toronto, Canada [email protected] Laura Hawryluck MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Canada [email protected]...
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Quality Improvement In Intensive Care Units: ICU Physicians Ideally Positioned to Lead the Way
Author L. Chelluri, MD, MPH Professor of Critical Care Medicine Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA, US [email protected] Improvements in life-sustaining technologies in the past few decades have resulted in an increase in...
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