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Making critical care education BASIC: a collaborative approach to training
This article highlights the key current challenges of intensive care training and education. We share our experience of utilising modern educational techniques through the BASIC Collaboration to facilitate global critical care training. Critical care is a young and rapidly expanding specialty. This brings particular challenges in training staff....
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Effective education for palliative care: communication as a procedure
Palliative care for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit is increasingly in the mainstream, and palliative care principles are vital to ensure comprehensive patient care. ICU Management & Practice spoke to Caroline J. Hurd, MD, Director of Education Operations at UW Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, about the purpose of...
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Free Open-Access Medical education (FOAM) and critical care
This article describes the nature of FOAM (Free Open-Access Medical education), its strengths and weaknesses, and how it can be used effectively by critical care clinicians, educators, and students. “…and to teach them this art — if they desire to learn it — without fee and covenant.” — excerpt from the Hippocratic Oath FOAM, or ‘Free...
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Physiotherapy in the ICU e-learning programme
Development and evaluation of a module as part of an undergraduate international honours degree programme Preparing undergraduate students for the complex and daunting environment of the intensive care unit (ICU) is difficult for most undergraduate programmes. The European School of Physiotherapy, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, offers...
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Sepsis code implementation at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital: rapid diagnostics key to success
Implementation of a sepsis code, Código Sepsis, in October 2015 at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has led to better detection and a significant reduction in mortality. The hospital is the largest in Barcelona, with more than 1,100 beds and 7,000 employees. The objectives of Código Sepsis are to increase suspicion of sepsis and...
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Molecular diagnostics in severe respiratory virus infection
Recent trends in virus detection assays and host response biomarkers This article provides an overview of the recent advances in molecular testing for patients with suspected respiratory tract infection. Respiratory tract infections are common reasons for admission to intensive care units. For decades conventional culture techniques were...
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Integration of nurse practitioners into the critical care team
A viable approach to meet pressing challenges As the demands of critical care medicine increase one viable option to meet needs is the addition of a nurse practitioner to the traditional structure of the critical care team. The purpose of this article is to convey our positive experience of physician and nurse practitioner integration...
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Bringing new technologies to anaesthesia: are we there yet?
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair for Perioperative Medicine at UCLA. He is the Technology, Computing, and Simulation section editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia. His research interests focus on new technologies applied to anaesthesia and the intensive care unit. We live in a wireless world as consumers,...
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Agenda
For a full listing of events see https://iii.hm/aly NOVEMBER 23-25 6th International Fluid Academy Congress 2017 Antwerp, Belgium https://iii.hm/d8w 28-30 ATHENA 2017 International Conference Athens, Greece https://iii.hm/d8x DECEMBER 4-6 Intensive Care Society State of the Art Meeting 2017 Liverpool, UK...
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ICU Management & Practice 2017 Subject Index
Subject Index for Volume 17, issues 1-4, 2017. Issue Pages Short URL Issue 1 1-64 https://iii.hm/96c Issue 2 65-128 https://iii.hm/axf Issue 3 129-200 https://iii.hm/dee Issue 4 201-264 https://iii.hm/fb5 A B C D E -F G H...
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