www.dh.gov.uk A database launched recently will help identify the incidence and causes of sudden cardiac death and save the lives of people who may currently be at risk from the inherited heart condition that can strike without warning. Designed by pathologists and cardiologists, and funded by the Department of Health, the database...
READ MOREwww.emory.edu The use of ultrasound waves for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) may help dissolve blood clots in less time than using clot-busting drugs alone, according to researchers at Emory University. "These clots are a main cause of both heart attacks and stroke and the more quickly you can eliminate them the better," says Karthikeshwar...
READ MOREAuthor Katja E. Wartenberg, MD, PhD Division of Neurocritical Care and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany [email protected] Stroke care in the intensive care unit is focussed on stabilisation...
READ MOREAuthor Col. Rocco A. Armonda, MD Director Cerebrovascular Surgery & Interventional Neuroradiology, Neurocritical Care National Capital Neurosurgery Consortium Bethesda, Maryland, USA [email protected] [email protected] Introduction The combination of enhanced care provided...
READ MOREAuthor Robert D. Barraco, MD, MPH Section Chief Geriatric Trauma,Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA [email protected] In this, our second in a series of articles concerning the impact of the aging population in our ICUs, we address the care of the injured elderly. The...
READ MOREAuthors Maurizia Capuzzo, MD Department of Surgical, Anaesthetic and Radiological Sciences, Section of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy Italian Representative in the Council of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Chair of the Section on Health Services Research...
READ MOREAuthors Guido Bertolini, MD Laboratorio di Epidemiologia Clinica Istituto di Ricerche "Mario Negri" Ranica (Bergamo), Italy [email protected] Martin Langer Università degli Studi di Milano Fondazione IRCCS-Istituto Nazionale Tumori Milano, Italy Daniele...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Dept of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium [email protected] Intensive care medicine is one area of medical practice where the conduct of clinical trials is often difficult, largely because of the very heterogeneous nature of our...
READ MOREAuthor Jeannie Wurz Medical Writer/Editor Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland [email protected] At the 21st Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, held September 21 to 24 in Lisbon, Portugal, six speakers gave presentations addressing...
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