Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Conflict arises in all fields and workplaces and in ICU Management we are not immune to issues of disagreement. On the contrary, our unique role as physicians to patients and managers...
READ MOREThe European Parliament has called on the EUMember States and the European Commission to tackle today's biggest killer in Europe: Cardiovascular disease. MEPs believe prevention strategies, public awareness campaigns, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles is urgently needed. Cardiovascular disease accounts for 1.9 million deaths each year,...
READ MOREAuthor Kathleen Bartholomew Consultant Nurse Author “Ending Nurse-To-Nurse Hostility” (2006) Seattle, US [email protected] Managers are in a pivotal position to decrease conflict. By their response, or lack of response, they informally create the code of behaviour for the unit. Staff members...
READ MOREAuthor Nathalie Danjoux, MSc Senior Policy Analyst, Critical Care Secretariat Toronto, Canada [email protected] Laura Hawryluck MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Canada [email protected]...
READ MOREAuthors Laura Hawryluck MSc (Bioethics), MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Canada [email protected] Bernard Lawless MD, MHSc, CHE, FRCSC Provincial Lead, Critical Care and Trauma, Ontario Ministry...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. Thomas Heidegger (above) Consultant Anaesthetist Quality Manager in Healthcare Department of Anaesthesia, Walenstadt, Switzerland [email protected] Dr. Hans Joerg Gerig Consultant Anaesthetist Department of Anaesthesiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen...
READ MOREAuthor L. Chelluri, MD, MPH Professor of Critical Care Medicine Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA, US [email protected] Improvements in life-sustaining technologies in the past few decades have resulted in an increase in...
READ MOREAuthor Pål Klepstad MD, PhD Medical Director, Department of Intensive Care St Olavs University Hospital Trondheim, Norway [email protected] A key issue in Norwegian ICU care is how to give adequate ICU treatment to all patients despite a scattered population and geographically and meteorologically...
READ MOREDr. Nils Smith-Erichsen is a Consultant in the ICU at Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. He shares his views on Intensive Care in Norway. Please Tell Us About Your Experiences Working as an Intensivist in Norway. When I began as a full-time intensivist in 1979, only a few colleagues were in the same position in Norway....
READ MOREAuthors Stephen A. Bernard, MD Director of Critical Care, Knox Private Hospital Wantirna, Victoria, Australia Louis Brusco, MD, FCC M Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, Hospital Center New York, New York, US Hiroyuki Hirasawa, MD Professor...
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