Author Katja E. Wartenberg, MD, PhD Division of Neurocritical Care and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany [email protected] Stroke care in the intensive care unit is focussed on stabilisation...
READ MOREAuthor Col. Rocco A. Armonda, MD Director Cerebrovascular Surgery & Interventional Neuroradiology, Neurocritical Care National Capital Neurosurgery Consortium Bethesda, Maryland, USA [email protected] [email protected] Introduction The combination of enhanced care provided...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Dept of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium [email protected] Intensive care medicine is one area of medical practice where the conduct of clinical trials is often difficult, largely because of the very heterogeneous nature of our...
READ MOREAuthor Jeannie Wurz Medical Writer/Editor Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland [email protected] At the 21st Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, held September 21 to 24 in Lisbon, Portugal, six speakers gave presentations addressing...
READ MOREAuthors Charlie Granger FRCA Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Royal Lancaster Infirmary Lancaster, UK [email protected] The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can be a highly stressful environment - not just for our patients and their relatives but also for us, the staff who care for...
READ MOREIn critical care, there is no single answer, no magic solution - pharmaceutical or diagnostic that can cure all patients or improve their conditions simultaneously. In ICU Management we are always, however, in search of new diagnostic tools and medications, which we can add to our arsenal of weapons in fighting the deadliest of conditions that our...
READ MOREAuthor Dominique M. Vandijck, MSc,MA Department of Intensive Care Medicine Ghent University Hospital,Interfaculty Centre for Health Economic Research Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Ghent University,Ghent,Belgium [email protected] The approach of using biomarkers for diagnosing and assessing illness...
READ MOREAuthor Robert D. Barraco , MD, MPH, FACS,FCCP Associate Director of Trauma,Chief of Geriatric Trauma Department of Surgery Division of Trauma-Surgical Critical Care Lehigh Valley Hospital,Allentown,Pennsylvania,USA [email protected] The Baby Boom has become the Elder Explosion. According to U.S. Census...
READ MOREAuthors Rabia Khalaila RN, MPH, PhD Head Nurse,Internal Medicine ICU Hadassah-Ein Kerem Medical Centre Jerusalem, Israel Anwar Kabaha, RN, BSN Yana Tarnovsky, RN, BSN Internal Medicine ICU Hadassah-Ein Kerem Medical Centre Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] Introduction Physical assessment...
READ MOREAuthor Julie Benbenishty, RN BA ICU Chairperson Israeli EBN, Habrew Medical Organisation Hebrew University School of Nursing Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] The population in Israel is a little above 7 million people. At the end of 2007 there were 54,899 registered nurses in the country; 4.4 registered nurses...
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