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Biosite ® Incorporated Introduces Triage ® MeterPro™ www.biosite.com Biosite ® Incorporated recently unveiled its thirdgeneration testing platform, the Triage ® MeterPro™ at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) 2006 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA. According to a Biosite PRNewswire...
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The Evolving Role of Critical Care Medicine in Disaster Medical Response
Author J. Christopher Farmer, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN 507-255-3275 [email protected] Overview We have traditionally focused on the pre-hospital care setting as the primary building block of our disaster medical response...
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Tight Glycemic Control During Critical Illness: Overcoming the Obstacles
Author Stanley A. Nasraway, Jr., MD, FCCM Director Surgical Intense Care Units Professor Surgical Medicine and Anesthesia Department of Surgery, Tufts-New England Medical Center Washington St., Boston, MA 02111 [email protected] Salient literature is reviewed describing the benefits...
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Benefits of a Separate Airway Emergency Response Team
Authors Brian L. Smith, RCP, R.R.T. Administrative/Clinical Director, Respiratory Care Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine [email protected] Sherif Afifi, MD, FCCM, FCCP Chief, Division of Critical Care...
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Transport Ventilators
ECRI is a totally independent nonprofit research agency designated as a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (WHO). Such organizations are appointed to contribute toWHO’s public health mission by providing specialized knowledge, expertise, and support in the health field to the WHO and its member nations. ECRI is widely recognized...
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Institution Series: European Court of Auditors
Author Ilze Raath Editor European Affairs The European Court of Auditors (the Court) is the external audit institution of the European Union (EU) and acts as its “financial conscience”. Founded in 1977 in Luxembourg, the Court is independent from other EU institutions. Its task is to keep track of EU funds, making sure that...
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An Overview of the Healthcare System in Portugal
Author Ana Luisa Jardim, MD ICU – H. Capuchos, Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] www.icu-management.org Healthcare is on every country’s political agenda, especially because of the need to find solutions to the continuing increase in cost while meeting the challenge, felt by every healthcare...
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Sepsis and Organ Failure in Portugal
Author Isabel Miranda, MD. Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente (UCIP) Hospital de St. António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa (Zona Central) Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] Sepsis, defined as the host response to an infectious process, is one of the most frequent diagnoses...
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Intensive Care Medicine in Portugal
Author Rui Moreno MD, PhD Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente (UCIP) Hospital de St. António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar d Lisboa (Zona Central) Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] The first intensive care units (ICUs) in Portugal were created in the late 1950s in Coimbra (Rui...
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Intensive Care Training in Portugal
Authors Teresa Fevereiro, MD Luisa Amado, MD Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente (UCIP) Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa, Zona Central Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] Since the inception of the first Portuguese intensive care unit (ICU)...
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