• Technology

    Aside from the usual highlights of the International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, this 30th anniversary meeting provides us with a rare opportunity to look back and consider the evolution of the field and to take stock of what we have accomplished over the last three decades.  It is interesting, for instance to note, that while...

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  • PAPT - Patient Admissions Prediction Tool

    Author Justin Boyle, PhD Research Scientist The Australian e-Health Research Centre Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Queensland, Australia [email protected]   Evidence-based research demonstrates that overcrowding in emergency departments causes ambulance diversion, increased hospital lengths...

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  • Telepresence Using Robots in Acute Care Facilities

    Author Gilberto Felipe Vazquez de Anda , MD, PhD Head of Critical Care Robotics Department Hospital Materno Perinatal "Monica Pretelini", Instituto de Salud del Estado de México, México Professor - Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Autonoma del Estedo de Mexico [email protected]...

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  • Automated Hand Hygiene Monitoring

    Authors Veronique M. Boscart, RN Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, iDAPT-Intelligent Design for Adaption, Participation and Technology, Canada, L. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing,University of Toronto,Toronto, Canada [email protected] Alexander I. Levchenko , PhD Toronto Rehabilitation Institute,iDAPT-Intelligent...

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  • ICU Care Prior to Admission to the ICU

    Author Robert S. Green, BSc., MD, FRCPC, DABEM Department of Internal Medicine;Division of Critical Care Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia [email protected]   The demand for ICU resources is high and continues to increase....

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  • Outbreak of Cockroaches in an Intensive Care Unit

    Authors Ilker Uçkay, MD Resident Infection Control Programme University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva, Switzerland Sandrine Longet Di Pietro, RN Specialized nurse in infection control Infection Control Programme,University of Geneva Hospital and Faculty...

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  • Belgian Healthcare: Overview of the Health System and Financing

    Authors Dominique Vandijck , PhD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Public Health, Interfaculty Centre for Health Economic Research Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Ghent University [email protected]   Lieven Annemans , PhD Professor of Health...

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  • Infection Control in the ICU: The Nurse Perspective

    Authors Sonia O. Labeau , MNSc Faculty of Healthcare University College Ghent, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Ghent University [email protected]   Stijn I. Blot , PhD Faculty of Healthcare, University College Ghent Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences...

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  • The United States Healthcare System: The Most is Not Necessarily the Best

    Author Stephen R. Baker , MD Professor and Chairman of Radiology New Jersey Medical School New York, US [email protected]   The United States (US) healthcare agenda is the major domestic debate of President Obama’s presidency. He had made revamping of the US’ pluralistic medical delivery system...

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  • Intensive Care Ventilators: Purchase Considerations

    Contact ECRI Institute Europe Weltech Centre, Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 2AA, United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax. +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] Purchase Considerations Included in the accompanying comparison chart are ECRI Institute’s recommendations for minimum performance...

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