Author Jean-Louis Vincent Editor-in-Chief ICU Management Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels,Brussels, Belgium [email protected] In the current financial climate, a more discerning eye has been placed on the costs of public services and...
READ MOREAuthors Jérôme Pugin, MD Professor, Head Physician Intensive Care Department,University Hospitals of Geneva Switzerland [email protected] Vandack Nobre, MD Research Fellow Intensive Care Department, University Hospitals of Geneva Switzerland ...
READ MOREAuthors Clémence Dallaire, PhD Nurse, Professor at the Faculty of Nursing Sciences Université Laval Quebec, Canada [email protected] Paul-André Lapointe, PhD Director of the Department of Industrial Relations Faculty of Social Sciences Université Laval Quebec,...
READ MOREAuthors Heather Hand RN, CCRN, CNRN Clinical Staff Nurse Tampa, FL USA [email protected] Marya Searcy RN, BSN, CCRN, CNRN Clinical Staff Nurse Tampa, FL USA The authors work in a 32-bed neurosciences ICU, a state-of-the-art facility located at a level 1 trauma centre...
READ MOREAuthors Charlie Granger FRCA Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Royal Lancaster Infirmary Lancaster, UK [email protected] The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can be a highly stressful environment - not just for our patients and their relatives but also for us, the staff who care for...
READ MOREAuthors Luís Coelho, MD Pulmology Unit,Hospital of the Litoral Alentejano Santiago do Cacém, Portugal [email protected] João Gonçalves Pereira , MD Medical Intensive Care Unit,Department of Medicine III São Francisco Xavier Hospital Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental,Lisboa,Portugal Serial Measurements...
READ MOREHospitals In 2000 Israel had 48 general hospitals, with approximately 14 200 beds, spread throughout the country. The overall general care bed-population ratio is 2.2. Compared to OECD countries Israel is characterised by a low bed-population ratio, an extremely low average length of stay, a mid to high rate of admissions per thousand population...
READ MOREAuthor Gabriel M. Gurman, M.D. Professor Emeritus,Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Ben Gurion University of the Negev,Beer Sheva,Israel [email protected] Most practitioners would agree that there lie inevitable connections between the fields of anaesthesiology and intensive care, as the tasks that define them are almost...
READ MOREAuthor Freda DeKeyser Ganz RN, PhD Head Master Program Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] Nursing education in Israel has been undergoing academic upgrading, including a revised post-basic certification course in Intensive Care Nursing allowing nurses increased clinical...
READ MORELearning takes center stage in Music City, where SCCM’s Congress never sounded so good. The Society’s annual Congress is the largest multiprofessional critical care event of the year, drawing nearly 6,000 nurses, pharmacists, physicians, respiratory therapists, students, veterinarians, and other providers from around the world. You’ll know you’re...
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