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Using Specific Nutrients to Improve Outcome and Shorten Length of Stay in the ICU
Author Robert G Martindale MD, PhD Professor and Chief, Division of General Surgery Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Oregon, US [email protected] Fact or Fantasy? Nutritional delivery in the critically ill population has radically evolved in the past 15 years from the concept of nutrition delivery to...
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Successful Enteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Patient with a Strict Protocol
Author Victor Manuel Sanchez Nava, MD President Mexican Society Critical Care, President Educational Comite FELANPE Academic Director Critical Care Speciality ITESM Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico [email protected] Introduction During the last two decades, nutritional support has been recognised as a vital...
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Nutrition Challenges of the Obese in the ICU
Author Michael J. Hiesmayr , MD, PhD Head Division of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Vienna General Hospital—Medical University of Vienna; International Coordinator ICU nutritionDay project, and Chairman Austrian Society of Clinical Nutrition (AKE) Vienna, Austria...
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Nutritional Support in Critically Ill Obstetric Patients
Author Adriana Garduño Alanís, MSc Nutritionist Hospital Materno Perinatal “Mónica Pretelini", Instituto de Salud del Estado de México, Centro de Investigacion en Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Autónoma, del Estado de Mexico, Mexico [email protected] Pamela Montserrat Nava Díaz Nutritionist...
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Acting Outside the Box
Authors Gernot Marx, MD Department of Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen Aachen, Germany [email protected] Peter Asché Managing Director University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen Aachen, Germany [email protected] The focus of our review...
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Interview with Professor Paolo Pelosi
Professor Paolo Pelosi is Associate Professor in Anaesthesiology at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. Born in 1963 in Milan (Italy), he graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialised in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Milan. He works both in clinical and research fields related to different areas of Anaesthesiology....
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Patient Safety and E-Health
Author Susan Burnett Programme Lead, Organisation and Management Group Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London, United Kingdom [email protected] Since the publication in 1999 of arguably the most important call to action for patient safety, the Institute of Medicine's report 'To Err is...
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Series on Early Mobilisation of Critically Ill Patients
Authors Radha Korupolu, MBBS, MS Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Immanuel Susai, MBBS Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD [email protected] > Dale M. Needham, MD, PhD Medical Director,Critical Care...
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Medical Technology & Healthcare Costs
Author Mathias Goyen , BSc., MD Chief Executive Officer (CEO) UKE Consult and Management Hamburg, Germany [email protected] Health policy makers have focused on cost containment, for the past several decades, as a means to deal with the rapid rise in healthcare costs in the western world. All kinds of measures have been introduced...
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Highlights of Health in Switzerland
Migration and Health Around a third of the Swiss population are people with an immigrant background. This means that they either immigrated to the country or were born here but have at least one parent who immigrated to Switzerland. Although a large proportion of immigrants are well integrated and their health is hardly any different from that...
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