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Cost Effectiveness in Care
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Quality of care has always been our primary goal as critical care professionals. We strive daily to find yet new methods and treatments to increase our effectiveness so that we save or improve...
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WHO Publishes Key Health Statistics
www.who.org On 18 th May, the World Health Organization (WHO) published World health statistics 2007, the most complete set of health statistics from its 193 Member States. This edition also highlights trends in ten of the most closely watched global health statistics. It is the annual reference for a set of 50 health indicators...
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PULSION launches PiCCO2
At the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) in March this year, PULSION presented their new product PiCCO 2 , the first product of a new generation in hemodynamic monitoring. PiCCO 2 provides its users with a general overview, as well as detailed insights into the different aspects of the cardio-vascular system...
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Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) Funding for intensive care
Author Akos Csomos, MD, DEAA, PhD Surgical Intensive Care Unit Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) is by definition, a case mix classification scheme, which was designed in the 1960s to evaluate hospital performance. It was then adopted some 20 years later as a base unit...
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Recognition of the Critically Ill, the Use of Early Warning Scores
Authors AJ Turley Cardiology Specialist Registrar J Gedney Consultant anaesthetist and intensivist The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough, UK “Patients do not die of their disease. They die of the physiological abnormalities of their disease.” Sir William Osler...
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PCA Infusion Pumps
ECRI Europe Weltech Centre, Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 2AA, United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax. +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] www.ecri.org.uk ECRI is a totally independent nonprofit research agency designated as a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization...
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Change Management: Part 1 – Sources of and Barriers to Change
Author Ronald Pauldine, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, USA Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins...
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Intensive Care in Poland
Author Adam Mikstacki, MD, PhD ESICM Council Member, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Regional Hospital, Poznan, Poland The development of intensive care (IC) in Poland has been closely connected to the advances in anaesthesiology....
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Polish Working Group for Sepsis
Author Prof. Andrzej Kuebler Head of Working Group for Sepsis, Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Poland On November 19 th , 2001 the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy established a Working Group for Sepsis, motivated by the increasing worldwide interest in the syndrome...
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European Society of Intensive Care Medicine: 25 Years of Progress and Innovation
In 2007, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) will celebrate 25 years since it was founded in Geneva in 1982. To mark this anniversary, the Society’s Annual Congress in Berlin this year will combine the special celebrations with an exciting and novel scientific programme. ESICM’s Annual Congress has, over the recent...
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