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Future ICU Design: Return to High Visibility
Future ICU designs must feature high visibility to ensure safety. The ability for critical care nurses, physician intensivists, and other caregivers to visualise their patients has always been a high priority as it plays a major role in patient and staff safety. Architects and designers have responded with configurations for intensive care...
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A Framework for Addressing Seasonal Influenza: A Critical Care Perspective
Seasonal influenza remains a significant health burden and places tremendous and predictable strain on personnel and resources within a health system, specifically within critical care. Despite this, many institutions do not have a comprehensive influenza management plan. Effective and comprehensive critical care management of influenza requires...
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Will Artificial Intelligence Change ICU Practice?
An AI-enabled ICU is coming in the not-too-distant future, but it requires strong partnerships between clinicians and engineers. Spoiler alert. The short answer to this question is yes! Artificial Intelligence in Medicine” has been taking place biannually for the past 28 years (Patel et al. 2009). What is new, however, is the...
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Future Strategies in Sedation and Analgesia
From massive sedation in the past, through current patient-centred sedation protocols, the future may further improve sedation in the ICU. Introduction The concepts for an optimal sedation in the intensive care unit (ICU) should include: Definition of the optimal depth of sedation; The need for agents with on/off effects; The...
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Introducing the Intubation Credit Card
A go-anywhere checklist format to improve emergency tracheal intubation. Introduction Tracheal intubation outside the operating room is fraught with danger. According to the landmark NAP4 study, intubation in the ICU may be associated with 50 times greater risk of procedure-related death and brain injury compared to general anaesthetic...
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Improving Recognition of Neonatal Sepsis
Improving early recognition of sepsis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit using machine learning models and electronic health record data. Neonatal Sepsis - Incidence and Outcomes Despite advances in knowledge and medical care, sepsis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in infants worldwide, claiming the lives of one...
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Shaping the Human Side of Medical Devices in Critical Care: The Implication of Human Factor Studies
An overview of Human Factors Engineering (HFE), a multidisciplinary science in which human behaviour, capacities, and engineering principles are used to explore why errors occur, and how the likelihood of preventable harm could be reduced. What Do We Know About Medical Device Errors in Critical Care? Adverse events and errors are frequent...
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Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of the Critically Ill Patient
Professor Rui P. Moreno works at the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital de São José (Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central E.P.E) as the coordinator of the Neurocritical and Trauma ICU. Prof. Moreno has been a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) since 1995 and became President of the Society in 2008. He...
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ICU Management & Practice 2019 Author Index
Abella A 15 https://iii.hm/10d8 Abrams MP 122 https://iii.hm/10fe Amrein K 114 https://iii.hm/10fc Antonelli M 190 https://iii.hm/10fs Artigas A 100 https://iii.hm/10fa Azoulay É 188 https://iii.hm/10fr Bakshi V 56 https://iii.hm/10dj Barach P 182 https://iii.hm/10fq Beaucote V 180 https://iii.hm/10fp Bellomo R 10...
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Highlights from the I-I-I Blog
(I expert, I question, I answer) Have you got something to say? Visit https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/list/blog or contact [email protected] Jeremy M. Kahn Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Health Policy & Management - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health,...
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