Volume 17 - Issue 4, 2017
- ICU
- 22/11/2017
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READ MOREFrequently, formal education sessions crafted for medical professionals fall short in their ability to advance the competency of providers. There is a better way! It involves utilising knowledge from the adult education world and applying it to our critical care domain. A move to active teaching and learning strategies improves outcomes from the education....
READ MOREThis article describes the nature of FOAM (Free Open-Access Medical education), its strengths and weaknesses, and how it can be used effectively by critical care clinicians, educators, and students. “…and to teach them this art — if they desire to learn it — without fee and covenant.” — excerpt from the Hippocratic Oath FOAM, or ‘Free...
READ MOREDevelopment and evaluation of a module as part of an undergraduate international honours degree programme Preparing undergraduate students for the complex and daunting environment of the intensive care unit (ICU) is difficult for most undergraduate programmes. The European School of Physiotherapy, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, offers...
READ MOREFirst developed in aviation, CRM education facilitates prevention of accidents in medicine. Beyond the improvement of technical skills, the simulation can provide to learners the capacity to work with other team members, to pay attention to the work environment and to manage physiological or psychological constraints in critical situations. ...
READ MOREA viable approach to meet pressing challenges As the demands of critical care medicine increase one viable option to meet needs is the addition of a nurse practitioner to the traditional structure of the critical care team. The purpose of this article is to convey our positive experience of physician and nurse practitioner integration...
READ MOREA purchasing portfolio for more effective and efficient (medical) supply purchasing This design study aims to develop a purchasing portfolio for a university hospital intensive care centre that enables the user to make strategic decisions about how to allocate scarce resources wisely across different purchase categories. There is...
READ MOREAchieving large-scale behaviour change with the NHS Wales programme In 2016 NHS Wales received the Global Sepsis Award, recognising the work throughout the healthcare system on improving identification and treatment of sepsis, which has coincided with an apparent reduction in mortality and ICU admissions for patients with two International...
READ MOREFor a full listing of events see https://iii.hm/aly NOVEMBER 23-25 6th International Fluid Academy Congress 2017 Antwerp, Belgium https://iii.hm/d8w 28-30 ATHENA 2017 International Conference Athens, Greece https://iii.hm/d8x DECEMBER 4-6 Intensive Care Society State of the Art Meeting 2017 Liverpool, UK...
READ MORESubject Index for Volume 17, issues 1-4, 2017. Issue Pages Short URL Issue 1 1-64 https://iii.hm/96c Issue 2 65-128 https://iii.hm/axf Issue 3 129-200 https://iii.hm/dee Issue 4 201-264 https://iii.hm/fb5 A B C D E -F G H...
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