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SCCM’s Annual Congress: Improving Patient Care
Stay abreast of new developments, obtain needed tools to help advance your knowledge and further your practice of critical care at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 36th Critical Care Congress. Regardless of your profession or role in the critical care team, the Congress will offer you a well-rounded perspective on the latest diagnosis and treatment...
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Preparing for Disaster
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium As critical care specialists, we are accustomed to combating life-threatening illness and injury on a daily basis. Our staff must be vigilant and must be prepared to respond rapidly to any deterioration...
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World
WHO Finds Most Countries Fall Short of Ensuring a Safe Blood Supply www.who.int World Blood Donor Day was June 14, 2006. To mark the occasion, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an announcement stating that the world is making slow progress towards the goal of 100%unpaid, voluntary blood donation. According to the WHO, regular,...
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Teleflex
Teleflex Medical Expands Respiratory Offering www.teleflex.com Teleflex Medical recently issued a press release announcing the launch of an innovative interface for non-invasive ventilation (NIV), designed to help patients breathe easier. According to the press release, the Nasal-Aire II Critical Care patient interface is a...
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Strategic Aeromedical Evacuation in Natural Disasters:
New Tasks for Military Aeromedical Evacuation Systems Authors LtCdr. A. Faltlhauser, MD, DEAA Col. A. Thomas, MD Department for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Ambulance and Helicopter Service (Head: Col. A. Thomas, MD) Bundeswehr Central Hospital...
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Tertiary Intensive Care to Victims Repatriated to Europe After the 2004 Tsunami disaster
Author Marc Maegele, M.D. Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery Intensive Care Unit of the Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery (Director: Prof. Dr. Bertil Bouillon, M.D.) Cologne-Merheim Medical Center (CMMC) University of Witten/Herdecke E-Mail: [email protected] Individuals...
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Motivating Staff
Authors Todd Dorman, M.D. FCCM Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Baltimore [email protected] Ronald Pauldine, M.D. Johns Hopkins Bayview, Medical Center Baltimore [email protected] Motivational incentives often are equated to financial or other material...
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Evidence-Based Design Supports Evidence-Based Medicine in the ICU
Author D. Kirk Hamilton, B.Arch, MSOD, FAIA, FACHA, is an Associate Professor of Architecture and a Fellow of the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University for which he currently serves as Interim Director. His research area is the relationship of evidencebased health facility design to measurable organizational...
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Inside the ESA with Sir Peter Simpson
Sir Peter Simpson is the 2006 - 2007 President of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). In this interview with Amanda Heggestad, during Euroanaesthesia 2006, Sir Peter Simpson discusses his experiences with the ESA so far, as well as his goals for the ESA going forward. Can You Briefly Describe How the ESA Came to be?...
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Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine in Portugal
Author Ricardo Matos, MD Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalentes (UCIP) Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa (Zona Central) Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] One of the most remarkable aspects of the evolution of medicine in Portugal in the last decade...
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