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Critical Care in Canada

Interview With Professor Claudio Martin, President, Canadian Critical Care Society Claudio M. Martin is President of the Canadian Critical Care Society. Dr. Martin is Professor in the Department of Medicine, Chair/Chief of Critical Care Western (Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University) and Medical Director of Critical Care...
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Infections in the Immunosuppressed and Immunocompromised Patient

Over the last decades the number of immunocompromised patients has increased in parallel with improvements in transplantation science and alongside the development of numerous new classes of immunosuppressive agents offering novel therapy for a wide range of diseases. For example, an estimated 114,690 solid organ transplants were performed globally...
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Fluid Choices in Brain Injury

Fluid management for acute brain damage has changed profoundly in the last decades. In the recent past brain oedema has been identified at autopsies as an overwhelming cause of raised intracranial pressure (ICP) and death after brain injury. In order to reduce the brain water content, dehydration, and even drastic dehydration, with 250 ml/day total,...
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ICU Volume 15 - Issue 3 - 2015
- ICU
- 29/09/2015
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The Brain

Treatment of neurological illnesses and complications in the intensive care unit remains a challenge. And as intensivists we are aware of the risks of cognitive impairment for many ICU patients. For our cover story this issue we address practical brain matters. Nino Stochetti explains how to choose fluids for brain injured patients to achieve the...
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Mass Casualty Events: Survival Strategies
- ICU
- 29/09/2015
A new compendium of strategies to enhance survival of victims from mass casualty events has been released as a supplement to the Bulletin of the...
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Study: Do EHRs Affect Workflow in the ER?
- ICU
- 28/09/2015
The transition from a homegrown electronic health record to a commercially available EHR system affected emergency physician work activities, resulting...
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Study: Admitting Borderline Pneumonia Patients is Beneficial
- ICU
- 22/09/2015
Intensive care unit (ICU) admission for older, low-risk patients with pneumonia was linked with improved survival and no significant differences in...
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Study: Mismatch Between DNR Orders and Patient Prognosis
- ICU
- 22/09/2015
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are often established for patients whose prognosis is poor. Now new research published in JAMA finds that almost...
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14th NYSORA Symposium 2015
- ICU Events
- 19/09/2015
14th NYSORA Symposium 2015
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