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    #EA19: Resuscitation in septic shock: is less better?

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    • 03/06/2019

    On Day 2 of the Euroanaesthesia Congress 2019 (#EA19), there was a session on Resuscitation in septic shock: is less better? Three key speakers...

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    #EA19: Assessing delirium in the ICU

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    • 01/06/2019

    Dr. Ulf Guenther from Germany made an excellent presentation today at Euroanaesthesia 2019 #EA19 on assessing delirium in the ICU. Dr. Guenther...

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    #EA19 kicks off in Vienna

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    • 01/06/2019

    The opening ceremony of Euroanaesthesia2019 #EA19 kicked off this morning in Vienna, Austria. The ceremony began with some excellent entertainment

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  • Can Goal-Directed Therapy solve the economic burden of postsurgical complications?

    How effective are less invasive or even noninvasive methods?   The clinical and economic burden of post-surgical complications and the economic impact of Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy (GDFT) implementation.     Improving the quality of care by reducing post-surgical complications, decreasing mortality, and decreasing hospital...

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  • PICU Up! A multicomponent early mobility intervention for critically ill children

    An overview of the 'PICU Up!' mobility programme at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, which integrates sleep promotion, delirium prevention, and sedation optimisation to increase mobilisation in critically ill children.   What is the PICU Up! Programme?   Paediatric intensive units traditionally have had a culture where critically ill children...

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    Caring for the critically ill child  

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  • A structural approach for diagnosing weaning failure

    A case from a specialised weaning centre Using a case of a former patient we describe the structured approach of analysis of the cause of weaning failure with corresponding specific therapies used in our Centre for Expertise. Previously, we suggested a structural approach for diagnosing the cause of weaning failure (Heunks and van...

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  • Vitamin D deficiency in ICU patients

    A review on the role of vitamin D in a well-defined setting of critically ill patients: patients undergoing cardiac surgery and organ transplantation, and the potential benefit of vitamin D supplementation.   Vitamin D research has experienced a true hype in all fields of medicine in the last decades. In critical illness, this increased...

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  • Use of sedation and controlled paralysis in ICU patients with ARDS

    According to a National Institutes of Health sponsored clinical trial that was conducted at several North American hospitals and was led by clinician-scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Colorado schools of medicine, reversibly paralysing and sedating hospitalised patients with severe breathing problems does not prove improve...

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  • New recommendations for stroke systems of care - American Stroke Association policy statement

    Approximately 7.2 million Americans 20 years or older have had a stroke. Nearly 800,000 people in the U.S. have a new or recurrent stroke each year. A stroke occurs every 40 seconds in the U.S., and someone dies of a stroke every four minutes.   According to a policy statement published by the American Stroke Association, and published in the journal...

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