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Sepsis
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head Department of Intensive Care,Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels Brussels, Belgium Sepsis is one of the most difficult and challenging conditions to manage in our ICUs, as it can develop in many different situations and its’ course varies widely from patient to patient....
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Do Care Bundles Help in Implementing Sepsis Guidelines
Authors Jérôme Pugin, MD Professor, Head Physician Intensive Care Department University Hospitals of Geneva,Switzerland [email protected] Vandack Nobre, MD Research Fellow Intensive Care Department University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland A new set of guidelines has been published...
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Surviving Sepsis: Updates to the Management Bundle
Author Sean R. Townsend , MD Intensivist, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit Brown University & Rhode Island Hospital,Institute for Healthcare Improvement Providence, Rhode Island,USA There is considerable controversy and debate surrounding much of what we do at the bedside in critical care, and the management of sepsis...
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Current Controversies in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Part 2:Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Management Author Karen Pickett MB, BCh Medical Writer/Editor Dept of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Brussels, Belgium A recent meeting in Berlin gathered six experts in the field of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) to present an overview of the many aspects related...
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MRSA Management: A Cost Efficiency Problem
Authors Eric Nulens, MD Medical Microbiologist,Medical Microbiologist Department- Algemeen Ziekenhuis, Sint-Jan Bruges, Belgium Ellen Broex Msc,Ed Smeets Ellen Stobberingh , MD,PhD Ruud Deurenberg, Ph.D Medical Microbiology Department- University Hospital Maastricht,The Netherlands [email protected]...
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Making Both Ends Meet
Authors Christian Zugck, MD,Assistant Professor Head of the working group on telemedicine Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Respiratory Medicine University of Heidelberg, Medical Centre Heidelberg, Germany Christian.Zugck@ med.uni-heidelberg.de Jannis Radeleff, MD Department of Cardiology,Angiology and...
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Safety in the Intensive Care Unit: Daily Goal Sheet
Authors Mariam Ali Alansari, MD,FRCSI Consultant Intensivist,Critical Care Unit Salmaniya Medica Complex,Manama,Bahrain [email protected] Khalid Maghrabi, MD Consultant Intensivist,Section of Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine King Faisal Specialist Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Although...
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The Greece Healthcare System
Authors Gregory Roumeliotis , MPhil General Manager Cryo Save Balcanica Vice President of GHSMA [email protected] Stefanos Chronis , MSc Administrative Director Polyclinic Health Unit SA [email protected] The Country Greece covers an area of 131,957 km 2 , with hundreds of scattered islands...
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The Greece Hospital System
Author George J. Stathis Health Management Consultant President of GHSMA [email protected] The current hospital system in Greece is a direct result of Act 1397/1983 that established the National Health System (NHS). Laws that were later enforced brought about some changes, but did not modify the basic characteristics...
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Greece Health News
Hospitals Run on Scant Staff Many state hospitals are operating at below the emergency-staff level due to a chronic absence of personnel, says the leader of the country's hospital workers' union. Even university hospitals are unable to maintain self-sufficient specialist units as there are too few employees to staff them, according...
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