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ARROWg+ard Antimicrobial Catheter Technology: New Generation Now Available in Europe
www.arrowintl.com On October 1st, 2006 Arrow International received CE mark clearance for its ARROWg+ard Blue PLUS new catheter generation with Chlorhexidine along the entire intraluminal path and increased levels of Chlorhexidine on the catheter's external surface for better protection. Chlorhexidine-silver sulfadiazine is a CDC...
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Critical Care
Authors Dominique M. Vandijck , MSc, MA Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital – Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium Johan M. Decruyenaere, MD, PhD Director Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Professor...
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Genetic Variation in the Critical Care Setting
Author Bonny Lewis Bukaveckas, PhD, FACB Department of Pharmacy and of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Pharmacogenetics has made significant progress in recent years. Advances in pharmacogenetics and information technology will benefit critical care patients most of all....
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Recommendations for Medication Errors Prevention
Author Ph. Garnerin, DVM, PhD Quality Manager, Anaesthesiology Service, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland Drugs that are used in intensive care settings are numerous and often have narrow therapeutic margins. Patients have severe conditions that evolve quickly and require frequent adaptation...
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An Interview with Dr. Claudio Ronco
Prof. Claudio Ronco shares his management experience and vision as Director of the Nephrology Department at St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. May I Ask You, by Way of Introduction to Our Readers, How Long You’ve Been the Director of Your Unit? I have been director of the Department of Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation...
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The Healthcare System in Poland
Author Jacek Lukomski Director of Regional Hospital, Poznan Vice President of Union of Polish Health Care Employers, Poland The reforms of the healthcare system in Poland were initiated in 1989 along with the reforms of the national economy. Their positive effects were manifested mainly by shorter hospitalisations,...
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Designed for Simplicity and Safety – the World’s First Ventilation Cockpit™
www.hamilton-medical.com/new The novel Ventilation Cockpit announced by HAMILTON MEDICAL is designed to reduce complexity and to promote safer ventilation. It is unique to the new HAMILTON-G5 intelligent ventilator to be introduced during the ISICEM in Brussels (27-30, March). The Ventilation Cockpit presents data...
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International Action Needed to Increase Health Force
www.who.int A new international Task Force was launched under the auspices of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) in order to tackle the global shortage of health workers, announced the World Health Organization (WHO). The new Task Force will advocate the need for significantly increased investment in the education and...
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Medical Informatics Improves Quality of Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Authors Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD Research Fellow Ognjen Gajic, MD, MSc Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA [email protected] Advances in medical...
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Euroanaesthesia 2007
Author Jennifer M Hunter, MB ChB PhD FRCA Chairman Scientific Programme Committee, ESA University Department of Anaesthesia Clinical Sciences, Liverpool, UK [email protected] Euroanaesthesia 2007 takes ESA members to the beautifully elegant Bavarian city of Munich for the first time this...
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