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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in the Medical Patient
Authors Chadwick P. Smith , MS, FACC Fellow Department of Surgical Education, Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida, USA [email protected] Michael L. Cheatham, MD, FACS, FCCM Director Department of Surgical Education Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida, USA...
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Reducing Medication Errors and Improving Patient Safety
Authors Katie Went, BSc(Hons), PhD Research Assistant School of Computing University of Dundee Dundee, Scotland [email protected] Ian Ricketts, BSc, PhD, FBCS, FRSA, FRSM, MIT, MIEEE, ACM Chair of Assistive Systems and Healthcare Computing, and Professor School of Computing University of Dundee Dundee, Scotland [email protected]...
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Treating the Patient and Their Families
For this special issue of ICU Management, Professor Saïd Hachimi-Idrissi, Head of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital of Brussels (UZ Brussels) took Managing Editor Sherry Scharff on a tour of the unit and sat down to talk about the challenges of managing paediatric patients, maintaining staff levels and avoiding burnout....
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Control of an Outbreak of Linezolid-Resistant
Staphyococcus Aureus in a Spanish Intensive Care Department Author Miguel Sanchez Garcia, MD, PhD Intensive Care Department Hospital Clínico San Carlos Madrid, Spain [email protected] A 12-patient outbreak with linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LRSA) developed in our intensive...
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E-Health Moves Ahead in Europe
Reports on E-Health Stretegies and Implemantations in 30 Countries in Europe Now Available Since the publication of the European Commission's (EC) eHealth Action Plan in 2004, eHealth has gained significant momentum across Europe. "European countries on their journey towards national eHealth infrastructures - evidence of progress and recommendations...
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Protocolised Versus Non-Protocolised Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Critical Care
Author Gavin G. Lavery, MD, FFARCSI, FJFICMI ICU Consultant Regional Intensive Care Unit Royal Hospitals; and Clinical Director HSC Safety Forum Public Health Agency Belfast, Northern Ireland [email protected] Bronagh Blackwood, PhD, M.Sc Lecturer School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's...
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Reducing Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP):
Author Nancy Njoroge Staff Nurse Intensive Care Unit, Western General Hospital Edinburgh, Scotland [email protected] Fiona Paul Lecturer School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland The role of oral hygiene in maintaining the health and wellbeing of...
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Swedish Healthcare: Overview of the Health System
Author Natalia Marczewska Editorial Assistant ICU Management Providing healthcare for just under 9.5 million people ( www.scb.se ), the Swedish national healthcare system is regularly ranked as one of the best in the world and continues to improve through innovative solutions and investment in the latest technology....
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Centre:
Author Amir Khorram-Manesh , MD,PhD Medical and Research Advisor, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Centre Gothenburg, Sweden [email protected] Per Ortenwall, MD , PhD Medical Director, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Centre Gothenburg, Sweden [email protected] Major incidents...
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Computed Tomography in ARDS
Authors Technical Aspects Marcelo Gama de Abreu, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany [email protected]...
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