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New Web Resource For Intensive Care Clinicians www.maquet.com MAQUET Critical Care has launched a peer-topeer ventilation information source for intensive care clinicians interested in clinical applications in ventilation therapies. The site hosts an extensive amount of peer-to-peer material in different ventilation therapies,...
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Medical Errors:Much Ado About Nothing?
Author Andrej Michalsen, MD, MPH Consultant Intensive Care Medicine HELIOS Hospital Überlingen,Überlingen/See, Germany [email protected] Risk-prone industries, such as aviation and nuclear power plant operations, have been addressing the issue of erroneous design and behaviour in systematic...
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Cost Containment and Patient Safety
Author Akos Csomos, MD, DEAA, PhD Surgical Intensive Care Unit Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary [email protected] There is an ongoing demand for quality patient care and reduction of human errors. We know it is possible to prevent errors, but how much does it cost? Over a decade...
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Pet Visitation Programmes in Critical Care: Positive Impact on Patient Outcomes
Authors Karen K. Giuliano, RN (above) Principal Scientist Philips Medical Systems, Andover, Massachusetts USA [email protected] Elaine R. Bloniasz, RN Clinical Nurse III Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts USA Peggy Lambert,...
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Cardiac Output Monitors: An Overview
Author Samir G. Sakka, MD, PhD, DEAA, EDIC Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Witten/Herdecke Medical Center Cologne- Merheim, Cologne, Germany [email protected] Although there is no evidence for an improved outcome of critically ill patients by measurement...
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Cardiac Output Monitors
ECRI Institute is a totally independent nonprofit research agency designated as a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO). Such organizations are appointed to contribute to WHO’s public health mission by providing specialized knowledge, expertise, and support in the health field to the WHO and its member nations. ECRI Institute...
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Overview of Healthcare in Canada
Author Nathalie Danjoux, MSc Senior Policy Analyst Critical Care Secretariat,Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] "Through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require...
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Critical Care in Canada
Author Laura Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor Critical Care Medicine,University Health Network Toronto General Hospital,Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] The Canadian national health insurance program for many Canadians represents a fundamental and defining value of...
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Communication and Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit in Canada
Author James Downar, MD, FRCPC Clinical Fellow Division of Palliative Care, Division of Critical Care Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Communication is an important issue in the Canadian healthcare system. Recent studies have...
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The Future of Critical Care in Canada: A Patient-Centred Approach
Authors Rebecca Anas, B.Sc, MBA Project Manager,Strategic Decisions Critical Care Department,St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Fabrice Brunet, MD, FRCPC Professor of Medicine University of Toronto, Chief, Critical Care Department...
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