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WHO: Workforce Crisis Endangers Healthcare www.who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in its World Health Report 2006 that a serious shortage of trained healthcare professionals is severely limiting the life-saving services available in 57 countries around the world, 36 of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. According to...
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Antibiotic Strategies for Prevention of Nosocomial Pulmonary Infections in Mechanically
Ventilated Patients Authors R. Ferrer A. Navas A. Artigas Critical Care Center, Sabadell Hospital, Parc Tauli University Institute, Barcelona Autonomous University, Spain Ricard Ferrer [email protected] Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) still remains a leading cause of morbidity...
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Added Value from Nursing Research
Authors Christina Jones, BSc, MPhil, PhD, Dip, Couns Nurse Consultant Critical Care Follow-up, Intensive Care Unit, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK & Intensive Care Research Group, Dept. of Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK [email protected] Christina Jones discusses the ways in...
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Global Challenges, Patient Centred Solutions
Author Dr Andrew Rhodes Chair, Division of Scientific Affairs, ESICM [email protected] Dr. Rhodes previews the interaction, learning and dissemination of scientific knowledge offered by the ESICM’s annual Congress in September. This year, the 19th annual congress of the European Society...
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Healthcare in the United States
Authors S. Sujanthy Rajaram, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Cooper University Hospital [email protected] Carolyn Bekes, MD, MHA Professor of Medicine Cooper University Hospital This article describes the healthcare system in the US, current issues, cost...
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Progress in Safety and Quality in ICU Care in the US?
Author Charles G. Durbin, Jr. MD, FCCM President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine [email protected] Scientific studies support delivery of ICU care by a multi-professional team of experts stationed at the patient’s bedside.A looming shortage of healthcare providers in the United States will threaten...
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Therapeutic Hypothermia for all Cardiac Arrest Patients
Author Michael Holzer, MD Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna [email protected] Dr Michael Holzer presents the rationale for cooling all comatose patients after cardiac arrest. About 17 million people worldwide die from cardiovascular diseases each...
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Safety in Care
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Safety must be a key priority for any service driven industry where errors have the potential to cause harm to people (Dorman 2005). All humans make errors, and doctors are no exception. Each year the...
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A Novel Collaborative Model to Improve ICU Care in Michigan
Authors Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD Dept. of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, USA [email protected] Christine A. Goeschel, RN, MPA, MPS Keystone Centre for Patient Safety and Quality Michigan Health and Hospital Association Lansing, USA...
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Communication with the Administration
Authors Ronald Pauldine, MD, Fellow Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM Dept. of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, US [email protected] In previous articles in this series, Drs Pauldine and Dorman have discussed communication skills in...
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