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Predictors of Poor Hand Hygiene in the Emergency Department
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America shared that a new report studying hand hygiene of healthcare workers in the emergency department found certain care situations, including bed location and type of healthcare worker performing care, resulted in poorer hand hygiene practice. The study was reported in the November issue of Infection Control...
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Impact of Procalcitonin Measurement on Antibiotic Administration
Author Arzu Topeli Iskit, MD Director Medical Intensive Care Unit and Division of General Internal Medicine Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, Turkey [email protected] Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker which is used extensively, both as a surrogate marker to distinguish bacterial infections...
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Therapeutic Temperature Management in Critically Ill Patients
Kees H. Polderman, MD, PhD Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, U.S. [email protected], [email protected] Therapeutic temperature management is an increasingly important therapeutic intervention in critical care, particularly in patients with neurological injuries....
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Management of Delirium in Elderly Patients
Robert D. Barraco, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCP Chief Sections of Geriatric Trauma and Trauma Outreach [email protected] Also Chair Institutional Ethics Committee Lehigh Valley Health Network Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA Delirium was described in the first century AD by Celsus as “mental disorders such as...
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Applying Transpulmonary Pressure in the ICU
Tom Piraino, RRT Best Practice Clinical Educator Respiratory Therapy Services St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario [email protected] Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) Department of Anaesthesia (Critical Care) Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Mechanical ventilation...
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Data Centre Trends in the Healthcare Sector
Robert Forsyth Bruno Raeymaekers ARCADIS Community of Practice (COP) for Data Centers [email protected] Growing IT applications are taking a central position in the functioning of any healthcare facility. Existing sites are commonly relying on older IT and technical facilities, not able to support the new...
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Looking Back on 2011
For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency medicine during the year just past, and identifying trends for the future. Each contributor provided...
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Technology as a Means of Supporting the Clinical Environment
For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency medicine during the year just past, and identifying trends for the future. Each contributor provided...
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Uneven Distribution of Resources in the ICU
For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency medicine during the year just past, and identifying trends for the future. Each contributor provided...
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Quality Measurement & Evaluation of ICU
Prof. Dr. Dominique Vandijck Dept. of Public Health and Health Economics Dept. of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium Dept. of Health Economics and Patient Safety Hasselt University Hasselt, Belgium For years, some have tried to deny their value, but today we can no longer...
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