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    ESICM 2014: Does Flexibility Increase Safety and Efficiency?

    • ICU
    • 29/09/2014

    Flexibility in intensive care provision was the focus of a session this morning at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s Congress in Barcelo

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    ESICM 2014: Intensivists Meet in Barcelona

    • ICU
    • 28/09/2014

    European Society of Intensive Care President, Jean-Daniel Chiche, tonight welcomed delegates to ESICM Lives 2014, the 27th Annual Congress of the...

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    Bioinformatics Tool Improves Pneumonia Diagnosis

    • ICU
    • 27/09/2014

    Researchers at George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D.C., have developed a new method for more accurate and rapid identification of bacteria

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  • Research News

    Sniffing Out C. difficile Rapid detection of C. difficile could be on its way with the development by UK scientists of an ‘electronic nose.’   Using a mass spectrometer, the researchers have shown that it is possible to identify the unique ‘smell’ of C-diff, which would lead to rapid diagnosis.   In addition, the scientists say it could...

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  • European Society of Intensive Care Medicine: President-Elect Professor Daniel de Backer

    Interview Prof. Daniel De Backer President-Elect, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine   Professor Daniel De Backer is President-Elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and takes up his role as President in October 2014. He is Professor in the Intensive Care Department at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels,...

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  • Bleeding, Coagulopathy and Blood Products in Major Trauma

    Authors Lieutenant Colonel Michael C. Reade, MBBS, MPH DPhil FANZCA FCICM Intensivist & Australian Defence Force Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland and Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [email protected]...

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  • Renal Replacement Therapy

    Adequate Dialysis in the ICU - A Multidimensional Aspect Authors Zaccaria Ricci , MD Staff, Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS Rome, Italy [email protected]   Gianluca Villa , MD Staff, Department of...

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  • Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Life Support: The Experience With ECMO in Chile

    Authors Sebastián Ugarte , MD President of the Pan American and Iberian Federation of Critical Care Medicine (FEPIMCTI) Director of the Critical Care Service, Indisa Clinic Professor of Intensive Medicine University Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile   Juan Espinoza , MD Director of the Surgical Critical Care...

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  • PVI and SpHb Studies Presented at ESA 2014

    Two Randomized Trials Presented at the Euroanaesthesia 2014 Congress Show Similar Fluid Administration and Risk Profile with PVI as with Invasive or Complicated Procedures Two Additional Studies Presented on Noninvasive SpHb in Postpartum Hemorrhage Detection and Oral Surgery   Four new clinical studies evaluating Masimo noninvasive patient...

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  • MicroVision Medical Launches Instant Microcirculation Analysis at the Bedside:

    A New Tool to Quantify the Microcirculatory Effects of (fluid) Resuscitation   Ever since the introduction of microcirculatory monitoring at the bedside, physicians and clinical investigators have had one wish: to instantly have an analysis of the microcirculation at the bedside.(1)   The fourth generation of MicroVision Medical’s...

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