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Issues in Medical Education: Acute Care Undergraduate Teaching
Author Mariam Alansari MD, FRCSI Consultant Intensivist, Intensive Care Unit Salmaniya Medical Complex Ministry of Health, Manama, Bahrain [email protected] In most hospitals, medical services are overstretched and senior house officers (SHOs) in particular, have to spread themselves thinly over...
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The Epic II Study
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Department of Intensive Care Erasmus Hospital, Free University Brussels Brussels, Belgium On April 29, 1992, the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) study collected data from more than 10,000 intensive care unit (ICU) patients in 17 countries in Western Europe (Vincent...
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Cost Effectiveness in Care
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Quality of care has always been our primary goal as critical care professionals. We strive daily to find yet new methods and treatments to increase our effectiveness so that we save or improve...
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WHO Publishes Key Health Statistics
www.who.org On 18 th May, the World Health Organization (WHO) published World health statistics 2007, the most complete set of health statistics from its 193 Member States. This edition also highlights trends in ten of the most closely watched global health statistics. It is the annual reference for a set of 50 health indicators...
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Costs of Intermediate Care and Intensive Care
Author 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 Deputy chair of the Section on Health Services,...
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Dose-Finding and Optimisation Designs
Author Ajmal Eusuf, MB, BS, FRCA Malachy Columb, MB, BCh, BAO., FRCA Acute Intensive Care Unit University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe, UK Introduction Knowledge of the issues related to clinical research is a requirement to the fuller understanding of the practice...
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Recognition of the Critically Ill, the Use of Early Warning Scores
Authors AJ Turley Cardiology Specialist Registrar J Gedney Consultant anaesthetist and intensivist The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough, UK “Patients do not die of their disease. They die of the physiological abnormalities of their disease.” Sir William Osler...
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PCA Infusion Pumps
ECRI Europe Weltech Centre, Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 2AA, United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax. +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] www.ecri.org.uk ECRI is a totally independent nonprofit research agency designated as a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization...
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Intensive Care in Poland
Author Adam Mikstacki, MD, PhD ESICM Council Member, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Regional Hospital, Poznan, Poland The development of intensive care (IC) in Poland has been closely connected to the advances in anaesthesiology....
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Polish Working Group for Sepsis
Author Prof. Andrzej Kuebler Head of Working Group for Sepsis, Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Poland On November 19 th , 2001 the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy established a Working Group for Sepsis, motivated by the increasing worldwide interest in the syndrome...
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