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Organ Donation
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital / Free,University of Brussels Brussels, Belgium [email protected] With thousands of patients dying from lack of donor organs every day, the topic of organ donation...
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Industry and Research News
Supension of Hydroxyethyl-Starch Solutions to be Re-Examined The European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has concluded that the benefits of infusion solutions containing hydroxyethyl-starch (HES) no longer outweigh their risks, and recommends that the marketing authorisations for these medicines be suspended....
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Implementing the Helsinki Declaration on Safety in Anesthesiology in Europe
Author Sven Staender, MD Professor Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Regional Hospital Maennedorf, Switzerland [email protected] Sven Staender (Chairman), on behalf of the EBA/ESA Task Force Patient Safety (Andrew Smith, Guttorm Brattebø, David Whitaker) The...
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Delayed ICU Admission and its Impact on Mortality
Authors Jean Baptiste Lascarrou, MD Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit District Hospital Center La Roche Sur Yon, France [email protected] Jean Reignier, MD, PhD Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit District Hospital Center La Roche Sur Yon,France...
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The Ethics of Uncontrolled Organ Donation: Uncontrolled Organ Donation is Ethically Neutral
Author David Crippen, MD, FCCM Professor Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh,USA With a shortage of donor organs worldwide, measures are needed to improve rates of organ donation. In this paper Prof. David Crippen proposes that...
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The Ethics of Uncontrolled Organ Donation: Uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory
Determination of Death is Ethically Problematic Author Leslie Whetstine, PhD Associate Professor Division of Humanities, Walsh University North Canton, Ohio,USA In a typical Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death (DCDD) case, a patient is brought to the Emergency Department suffering...
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Indirect Calorimetry: Research Tool or Essential Equipment?
Indirect calorimetry is usually presented as essential equipment to optimise nutrition. However, numerous flaws limit its use, and currently available devices are not sufficiently accurate for clinical use. Why Use an Indirect Calorimeter in the ICU? The magnitude of the caloric debt (the difference between energy expenditure (EE)...
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Statins Reduce Deaths From Infection and Respiratory Illness,
Data Eight Years on From Trial Suggests The death rate among patients prescribed a statin in a major trial that ended in 2003 is still lower than those given a placebo, even though most participants in both groups have been taking statins ever since. ASCOT, the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial, was stopped early because the statin was...
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Long-Term Outcome After Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Introduction The past two decades have witnessed a tremendous evolution in our understanding and management of patients with Intra- Abdominal Hypertension (IAH) or Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (ACS). Improved diagnosis and institution of both medical and surgical management strategies have significantly increased survival, improved long-term...
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Overview of Irish Healthcare System
Ireland is one of a small number of countries where the delivery of Health and Social care services comes under the auspices of one government department. The range of services delivered ranges from neurosurgery at one end of the spectrum to child and family welfare services on the other end. Services are usually categorised by acute care,...
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