• Triage: An Important Part of The Response to Major Incidents

    Author Amir Khorram-Manesh, MD, PhD  Prehospital and Disaster  , Medicine Centre Gothenburg, Sweden [email protected] Kristina Lennquist Montán, RN, PhD student Prehospital and Disaster  , Medicine Centre Gothenburg, Sweden Sten Lennquist, MD, PhD  Prehospital...

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  • Accuracy of Field Triage of Trauma Patients

    Authors Marius Rehn, PhD student Department of Research, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation Drøbak, Norway and Akershus University Hospital [email protected] Andreas Krüger, PhD student Department of Research Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drodak, Norway, and Department of Anaethesiology and Emergency Medicine,...

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  • Intensive Care Medicine in Turkey

    Author Arzu Topeli, MD Professor of Medicine Director of Medical Intensive Care Unit and Division of General Internal Medicine Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, Turkey [email protected] Intensive care medicine (ICM)is a relatively new speciality in Turkey. In 1959,the first reanimation...

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  • Challenges of Working in a 100-Bed Intensive Care Unit

    Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Birmingham, Prof. Julian Bion also has an honorary consultant appointment with the University Hospital in Birmingham. He also has a number of high-profile national and international roles in the field of intensive care, including being an Editorial Board Member of ICU Management and is a former...

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  • Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

    Authors Stijn Blot, PhD General Internal Medicine  & Infectious Diseases Ghent University Hospital; Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences,  Ghent University, Belgium [email protected] Dominique Vandijck, PhD General Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases Ghent University Hospital; Dept. of Health Economics...

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  • Nutrition

    One needn't have a medical license or years of training as a clinician to understand the simple importance of nutrition. There are numerous clichés that embody this very sentiment ("An apple a day keeps the doctor away..."; "Chicken soup will heal what ails you...") What is commonly accepted is that proper nutrition can not only guard against ailments,...

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  • Experience from the 2009 Influenza Outbreak in Mexico: One Year Later

    Author Gilberto Felipe Vazquez de Anda , MD, PhD Head Critical Care Robotics Department Hospital Materno Perinatal “Mónica Pretelini” Instituto de Salud del Estado de México, and Professor Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico [email protected]...

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  • Drug Eluting Stents

    Author Alfredo E. Rodrigues, Prof. Director Cardiovascular Research Centre (CECI) Head Cardiac Unit Otamendi Hospital, Postgraduate Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] With the introduction of DES technology, a reduction in coronary restenosis rates...

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  • Overview of the German Healthcare System

    Author Dr. Josef Düllings CEO St. Vincenz-Hospital GmbH Paderborn, Germany [email protected] The Federal Minister of Health, Philipp Rösler (Free Democrats), is a federal. This is a good precondition for understanding the complexities of the healthcare system and for appropriate decision making. It is,...

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  • Neurointensive Care Units in Germany

    Author Katja E.Wartenberg, MD,PhD, Co-Director Neurointensive Care Unit Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg Wittenberg, Germany, and Chair International Committee of the Neurocritical Care Society Neurocritical care is an evolving subspecialty of neurology, anaesthesia, intensive care medicine,...

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