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Research in Europe at Stake
A uthor Helicia Herman Editor European Affairs C orrespondence [email protected] Concerns voiced before the EU Clinical Trials Directive (2001/20/EC) came into force are rising regarding the potential threat the Directive poses to non-commercial clinical trials. Introduction...
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Press Release - The Performance Series™One Series Fits all™
C ontact Carol Seroussi Hospital Products manager Manuëla Leurent European Marketing Communication Planner Respironics International W ebsite www.respironics.com. medicine.umaryland.edu Correspondence [email protected] The...
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German Competence Network for the Study of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock (SepNet)
A uthors Frank Martin Brunkhorst, MD Konrad Reinhart , MD for the SepNet Investigators Dept of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany C orrespondence [email protected] Drs Brunkhorst...
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Does Bedside Blood Gas Analysis Reduce Costs in the ICU?
A uthors Jan Poelaert, MD, PhD International Research Centre and Cardiac Centre Ghent University, Belgium Guido Schüpfer, MD, MBA HSG Institut für Anästhesie, Kantonsspital Luzern C orrespondence [email protected] The design of studies...
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Infusion Pumps
Introduction ECRI is a totally independent non profit research agency designated as a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (WHO). Such organizations are appointed to contribute to WHO's public health mission by providing specialized knowledge, expertise, and support in the health field to the WHO and its member nations....
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Structure, Organization and Practice of Critical Care Medicine in France
Authors Pierre-Edouard Bollaert Service de Réanimation médicale, Hôpital Central Nancy Cedex , France on the behalf of the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française Claude Martin Département d’Anesthésie- Réanimation Centre de Traumatologie, Marseille Cedex, France on the behalf of the Société...
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French Healthcare System
The French healthcare system is one of the most advanced but also most expensive in Europe. A major review of the health system in 1996 introduced new regulations aimed at limiting the growth of health expenditure. These regulations led to much tighter government controls of public and private hospitals, as well as ambulatory care services, to rationalize...
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Persistent Organ Failure Before Death in Patients with Severe Sepsis
Intensivists are used to describing the patient’s condition at the time of handover or when speaking to family members as stable, suggesting that nothing new has happened during the last period of clinical treatment or evaluation, usually one day. Families generally receive this information as positive news, thinking that as there has been no further...
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The 4th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society
It is increasingly recognised that major airway events, including those with poor outcome, may occur on Intensive Care Units (ICUs). NAP4 (the 4th National audit project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society) examined major complications of airway management in NHS hospitals in the UK for a period of one year, during anaesthesia,...
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Patterns of CRP-Ratio Response to Antibiotics - Clinical Implications
Patterns of CRP-Ratio Response to Antibiotics – An Innovative Concept After prescription of antibiotics, the evaluation of the patient clinical response as well as the assessment of resolution of the infection relies on the monitoring of the same criteria used for clinical diagnosis. Therefore, following datasuch as temperature, heart rate, respiratory...
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