Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Critical care has traditionally been administered through intensive care units and emergency departments attached to a hospital. In this setting, intensivists, nurses and other medical specialists...
READ MOREAuthors Jon Fuerstenberg, MD Department of Surgery University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA Greg Beilman , MD Department of Surgery University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Jon Fuerstenberg [email protected] This article is an overview of the role...
READ MOREAuthors Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD David S. Kwon, MD Henry Ford Health Systems, Department of Surgery, Detroit, USA Douglas R. Hamilton, MD, PhD Ashot E. Sargsyan, MD Shannon Melton, BSc Wyle Laboratories, Houston, USA Scott A. Dulchavsky [email protected]...
READ MOREAuthor M.Claire McManus, Pharm.D. Pharmacy Department, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, USA [email protected] At Caritas St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, a multidisciplinary care group successfully devised and implemented a Sepsis Protocol for the hospital. Medical, pharmacy and nursing...
READ MOREIntroduction This product comparison covers stand-alone and modular multiple medical gas monitors (MMGMs) that can determine concentrations of aesthetic and respiratory gases (oxygen [O 2 ], nitrous oxide [N 2 O], carbon dioxide [CO 2 ] and halogenated agents) in the patient breathing circuit during anaesthesia. MMGMs continuously sample...
READ MOREAuthors Ronald Pauldine , MD, Fellow Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA Todd Dorman [email protected] Effective communication is key when working with ICUpatients’...
READ MOREAuthor Michael Imhoff, MD PhD Department for Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany [email protected] Secondary analysis of patient-related data from clinical information systems offers potential for ICU management support, quality and cost improvements....
READ MOREAuthor Peter Angood, , MD, FRCS(C) FACS FCCM Vice-President & Chief Patient Safety Officer Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Chief Patient Safety Officer & Co-Director Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety [email protected] Dr. Peter Angood served...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Gumersindo Gonzalez Diaz Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain [email protected] This article describes the development of intensive care medicine in Spain as a primary speciality and its specific, five-year training programme, initiated...
READ MOREAuthors Gilberto Alonso Fernández, M.D. Regional Chief. Catalan Emergency Medical System Fernando García Alfranca, M.D. Director. Catalan Emergency Medical System Antonio Artigas Raventós, M.D, Ph. D. Director. Critical Care Department Sabadell Hospital, Spain...
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