• VIASYS Healthcare inc. Assumes Additional Role of Group President, VIASYS NeuroCare

    www.viasyshc.com   Having previously led the respiratory diagnostics and critical care businesses within VIASYS, Ed Pulwer has taken the position of Group President, VIASYS NeuroCare, announced the company. Randy H. Thurman, President and CEO, commented, “Ed has proven himself to be an outstanding leader who delivers on his commitments...

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  • VIASYS Wins 2006 AARC Zenith Award

    www.viasyshc.com   VIASYS Respiratory Care received the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Zenith Award for the fifth time at the 52nd Annual International Respiratory Congress held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The AARC established the Zenith Award program in 1989 to honor respiratory care product and service providers for...

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  • Staff Burnout in the Intensive Care Unit During Major Catastrophes:

    Carol S. North, MD, MPE 2,4,5 Barry A. Hong, PHD 6 Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH 1,3,4 The School of Public of Health (1) and the Departments of Psychiatry (2),Medicine(3), and Surgery-/Division of Emergency Medicine (4) at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; the North Texas Veterans...

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  • The Disaster “Cascade”: Burnout Syndrome in the ICU

    Authors Ronald Pauldine, MD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins Bayview, Medical Center, Baltimore   Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University,...

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  • Management of Massive Operative Blood Loss

    Authors Harry Kertscho 1 Jens Meier 1 Bernhard Zwissler 1 Oliver Habler 2 1) Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Control, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 2) Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine,...

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  • Overview of Intensive Care in Australia

    Author Ken Hillman Head Division of Critical Care, South Western Sydney Clinical School, Sydney, Australia [email protected]   Introduction Intensive care is a separately recognized specialty in Australia with specific post-graduate training and qualifications, which do not require prior specialty...

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  • An Overview of the Healthcare System in Australia

    Author Jeffrey Braithwaite, PhD Director Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Professor School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South, Wales, Sydney, Australia [email protected]...

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  • Palliative and Intensive Care

    Author Ken Hillman Head Division of Critical Care South Western Sydney, Clinical School, Sydney, Australia [email protected]   One of the important challenges for intensive care in Australia and, for that matter, in many other countries, is how we deal with the increasing number of patients...

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  • Economic Impact of rFVIIa in Management of Perioperative Bleeds in Burns Patients

    Author Pär I. Johansson MD, MPA Medical Director Transfusion Service, HS Blood bank Rigshospitalet/National University Hospita´l Blegdamsvej 9 Dk 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [email protected]   In addition to its more common, approved uses, activated recombinant coagulation factor VII...

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  • ICU Design of the Future: Focus on flexibility

    Authors Jeannie Wurz, BA Dept. of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland   Jukka Takala,   MD, PhD Dept. of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland [email protected]   Introduction Designing an intensive...

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