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Clean Hands Leading to Safer Healthcare for Half the World’s Population http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/ The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that a total of 22 countries, representing 55% of the world’s population, have signed on to the Global Patient Safety Challenge, a worldwide movement to address healthcareassociated...
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Use of Induced Hypothermia: Acceptance and Implementation Issues
Author Prof . Armand R.J. Girbes Department of Intensive Care, University Hospital VU Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] or [email protected] In this article, Professor Girbes discusses the difficulties a manager may face when introducing the practice of therapeutic hypothermia...
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Failure to Regain Weight After Critical Illness: A Short Review
Authors Vanessa Helliwell, FRCA, EDICM Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, United Kingdom [email protected] Sheena Hubble Consultant ITU Medicine,Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Exeter, United Kingdom Robert Fraser Mortality...
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Warming/Cooling Units
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 Centre of the World Health Organization...
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Quality Management System in the ICU
Author Dr. Ulrich Bothner, MD, MSc Certified Quality Manager and Medical Informatics Specialist Assistant Professor Anesthesiology University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany [email protected] Quality Initiatives and Concepts Established quality and confirmed quality improvement in healthcare...
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The Use of Simulation as a Tool for Improving Teamskills
Authors Torben Wisborg, M.D., D.E.A.A. The BEST Foundation: Better & Systematic Trauma Care (www.bestnet. no) Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Hammerfest Hospital,Hammerfest, Norway [email protected] Guttorm Brattebø , MD Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive...
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27th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium The 27 th International Symposiumof Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) will be held at the Congress Center in Brussels from March 27 to 30, 2007, and we are looking forward to another...
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Healthcare Scenario in India
Author Dr. S. K. Jawahar, MHA (AIIMS), DNB (Health Admin) Administrative Medical Officer, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India [email protected] www.sctimst.ac.in India, a country with a centuries-old heritage of medical science,...
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Critical Care in India
Authors Shailesh Bihari, MD Nikhilesh Jain Dr . N.Ramakrishnan, AB (Int Med), AB (Crit Care), MMM, FACP, FCCP Director of Critical Care Services Senior Consultant in Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Apollo Hospitals Chennai, India Honorary Professor Sri Ramachandra Medical...
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ISCCM Certificate Course and Critical Care Education in India
Author Dr. Shivakumar Iyer, MD, DNB European Diploma in Intensive Care ISCCM Course Coordinator, In-Charge ICU, Jehangir Hospital Pune, India [email protected] [email protected] Introduction Critical care is still a fledgling specialty in India, despite the fact that intensive...
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