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Stroke Care Out of Reach for One-Third of Americans
One-third of the U.S. population does not have access to a primary stroke centre within one hour by ambulance, according to a new study published online in the March 4 issue of Neurology . Even under optimal conditions, a large proportion of the U.S. populace would be unable to access a stroke centre within this timeframe. Certification of hospitals...
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"Second wind" from Vienna – 25 Years of Lung Transplants
25 years of lung transplantation was marked at the Medical University of Vienna and Vienna General Hospital (AKH Wien) on 6 March with a celebration and symposium. The first lung transplantation was performed at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna in November 1989. 25 years later the Medical University of Vienna/ AKH Wien is one of the...
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ICU Congress Listing
April 9-11 11th Emirates Critical Care Conference 2015 (ECCC 2015) Dubai, UAE www.eccc-dubai.com 16-17 Network For The Advancement Of Transfusion Alternatives 16th Annual Symposium on Patient Blood Management, Hateamsioss and Thrombosis 2015 (NATA 2015) Prague, Czech Republic www.nataonline.com 23-24 12th...
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WCACS 2015 Preview
Highlights of the 2015 7th World Congress of the Abdominal Compartment Society, Ghent, Belgium , May 28-30, 2015 The 7th World Congress of the Abdominal Compartment Society in Ghent in May 2015 follows on the recent successful meetings in Cartagena, Colombia (2013), Orlando, USA (2011) and Dublin, Ireland (2009), and brings the meeting back to...
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Israeli Society of Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing
The Israeli Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing Society is very active and includes a sub-group, the evidence-based nursing (EBN) ICU group. This group meets once a month. The participants include bedside nurses, researchers, educators and head nurses from general ICUs, open heart surgery, intensive cardiac care and cath labs. For the past 10 years...
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Liver Intensive Care
Professor Julia Wendon is a liver intensive care specialist and Clinical Director of the Critical Care Division at King’s College Hospital in London, UK. Are survival rates for acute liver failure (ALF) still improving? What can that be attributed to? Yes, the outcome for ALF continues to improve, and this is seen both in those managed...
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Humanizing Intensive Care
ICU Management interviewed Gabriel Heras La Calle MD (Intensive Care Physician, blogger of TheIC-HU Project: Humanizing Intensive Care ) about the blog. In just 8 months of existence, the IC-HU Project has been awarded the Best Health Ideas 2014 Award by Diario Médico in the legal, ethical and deontological section. When and why did you start...
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Editorial
A warm welcome to Brussels for the 35th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. In 1980 we welcomed just a few hundred delegates to Brussels - pre-mobile phones and pre-Internet! While networking has become even easier with mobile and online technology, nothing beats meeting our colleagues in person. This year more than...
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35 Years of ISICEM
Prof. Antonio Artigas Director, Critical Care Centre, Sabadell Hospital, Barcelona, Spain ICU Management Editorial Board Member 1. What were you doing 35 years ago? I was working in the Intensive Care Service at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona. 2. What do you love about ISICEM? ISICEM is a good opportunity...
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ICU Management Welcomes New Editorial Board Members
Editor-in-Chief, Professor Jean-Louis Vincent, has welcomed three distinguished intensivists to the ICU Management Editorial Board. Prof. Jan de Waele, MD, Phd (Belgium) Prof. De Waele is an intensivist at the Surgical ICU of the Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium. As the current President of WSACS – the Abdominal Compartment Society,...
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