Thank you to all of you who kindly supported the launch of ICU Management. Over 2000 copies of the first issue were circulated during the ESICM congress in Berlin last year, where the journal was warmly received by professionals from all disciplines related to intensive care. ICU Management aims to disseminate information on...
READ MOREA uthor Jean-Louis Vincent, Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium This year, the ISICEM is celebrating its 25th anniversary! Twenty-five years ago, in a university building, 200 doctors and 5 faculty members met for the very first ISICEM. The concept...
READ MOREEthical Practices in Clinical Trials Author Henry J. Silverman, MD, MA Department of Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD Correspondence hsilverm@ medicine.umaryland.edu This article describes the lack of specification...
READ MOREA uthor N. Zamperetti, MD, PhD Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy C orrespondance [email protected] Managing the request of an ICU patient to forgo intensive supports can be extremely difficult. Keeping...
READ MOREA uthor Tom Woodcock, MB.BS M.Phil FRCA Director, General Intensive Care Unit and Chair Clinical Ethics Group Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust Professor Woodcock provides thought-provoking case studies to help train intensivists on how to handle the sometimes complex legal and ethical issues affecting...
READ MOREA uthors C. D. Gomersall MBBS G.M. Joynt MBBCh Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong W ebsite www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/ans/med_ans.htm C orrespondence [email protected]...
READ MOREA uthor G. Iapichino Istituto di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione dell’Università degli Studi di Milano Azienda Ospedaliera – Polo Universitario San Paolo, Milano, Italy C orrespondence [email protected] A cknowledgement I am deeply indebted...
READ MOREA uthor Jukka Takala, MD, PhD Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Director and Chief Physician, Clinic of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern (Inselspital) Bern, Switzerland C orrespondence [email protected] In response to the preceding comments...
READ MOREAuthors J. Albers, MD PhD ICU Head C.-F. Vahl MD PhD Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department Head Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany Correspondence [email protected] G. Van den Berghe , MD PhD Director of the Department of Surgical Intensive...
READ MOREAuthors European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Rui Moreno, MD Chairman of the Division of Scientific Affairs & Chairman of the Congress Committee Dermot Phelan FJFICM, FFARCSI Chairman of the Division of Professional Development & Chairman of the Education and Training Committee ...
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