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An Interview with Professor Hans Flaatten on Management in Intensive Care
Researcher and head of intensive care at Haukeland University Hospital, Professor Hans Flaatten believes that two goals essential to quality intensive care are good intra- and inter-team cooperation and respect, and constantly implementing the latest research findings into intensive care guidelines and practice. Introduction Professor...
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Respiratory monitoring in the perioperative period
A recent large prospective cohort study conducted on different types of surgery has demonstrated that the incidence of in-hospital mortality and postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs)is relatively high. Moreover, PPCs are associated with prolonged hospital stay and higher hospital mortality (Pearse et al. 2012).Ongoing studies are trying to...
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Organ Interaction
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief, ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital / Free University of Brussels. Brussels, Belgium [email protected] Organ interactions in critical illness may occur more often than we realise and physicians’ failure to recognise and react to such scenarios is leading...
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New Drug Reduces Heart Damage, Study Suggests
A single dose of an investigational anti-inflammatory drug called inclacumab significantly reduces damage to heart muscle during angioplasty, a recent international clinical trial has found. The study, which was led by Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, Director of the Research Centre at the Montreal Heart Institute, affiliated with the University of...
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Diabetes Medication May Prevent Patients from Developing Heart Failure
Commonly prescribed to lower blood sugar in diabetic patients, GLP-1 medications appears to also protect these patients from developing heart failure, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The retrospective study looked at 4,427 diabetic patients who were taking blood-sugar-lowering medications at Henry Ford Hospital...
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Diagnosis and Management of Critical Limb Ischaemia
Author Samir K. Shah , MD Resident Department of General Surgery Cleveland Clinic , Ohio, US Daniel G. Clair, MD Professor and Chair of Department of Vascular Surgery Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute...
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Racing to Improve Early Warning
The unique challenges in developing early warning for children have led to a patient-specific early warning approach. The methodology, which is based on the altered patterns of physiological derangement, associated with compensation and decompensation in clinical deterioration rather than population normal distributions, is suitable for patients...
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The Kidney as the Protagonist: An Interview with DR. Sean Bagshaw
Doctor Sean Bagshaw, Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta, Canada, supported by a Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Nephrology, has played an active and influential role in the research of clinical, epidemiological and translational issues related to acute kidney...
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Tracheostomy in the Intensive Care Unit: An Italian Snapshot
Optimisation of percutaneous and surgical tracheostomy techniques is one of the challenges of modern intensive care unit (ICU) management. Different percutaneous tracheostomies (PTs) have been developed worldwide over the years. Ciaglia, in North America, described the multiple-step dilational tracheostomy; Griggs, in Australia, defined the guidewire...
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Ensuring Operating Room Safety: The Italian Approach
Policies for the management and control of risks associated with healthcare constitute one of the priorities of the modern health systems. Like most European countries, the Ministry of Health in Italy has recognised the importance of assessing quality and safety on all levels of the system, taking into account patient expectations and enhancing...
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