• Cost-Effectiveness

    As medical professionals, we are always seeking new, improved ways to save lives and provide a high quality of care. Coupled with the increasing pressure being applied during these increasingly unstable economic times, it comes as no surprise that one of the growing topics is that of addressing and achieving costeffectiveness. How can we create an...

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  • Johns Hopkins & Lockheed Martin Collaborate For Next Generation ICU Unit

    The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality of Johns Hopkins Medicine is collaborating with the Lockheed Martin Corporation, a global security and technology company, to create a safer and more efficient hospital intensive care unit (ICU) model. The two organisations will work to streamline complex and fragmented clinical systems and processes...

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  • Simulation Training

    Saïd Hachimi-Idrissi, PhD, MD, FCCM Coordinator Clinical Skills and Simulation  Centre; Professor in Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and  Paediatrics; Head  PICU, and Chairman of the Cerebral Resuscitation Research Group University Hospital of Brussels (UZ Brussels) Brussels, Belgium [email protected]...

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  • Pocket-Sized Ultrasonic Stethoscopes

    Dr. Bruce J. Kimura Medical Director Cardiovascular Ultrasound Department of Cardiology [email protected] Dr. Stan A. Amundson Director Internal Medicine Residency Dr. David Shaw Director Graduate Medical Education Scripps Mercy Hospital San...

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  • Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in Bulgaria

    Zlatina Alexieva, MD Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Military Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria Nikolay Petrov, MD Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Military Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria The accession of Bulgaria as a member of the European Union in 2007, has meant...

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  • Challenges for Healthcare & ICU Management in Bulgaria

    Nikolay Petrov, MD Associate Professor Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Meicine Military Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria [email protected] Also, President of Society of Anaesthesiologists in Bulgaria President of BULSPEN (Bulgarian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) Stefan Bakalov, MD Department of...

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    EMA Release Septrin Adverse Reaction Reports

    • ICU
    • 06/01/2012

    The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has welcomed the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) release of adverse reaction reports related...

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    ICU Volume 11 - Issue 4 - Winter 2011/2012

    • ICU
    • 15/12/2011

    COVER STORY - Cost-Effectiveness MATRIX FEATURES - Applying Transpulmonary Pressure in the ICU; Simulation Training as a Key to Improving...

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    Leading Heart Advocates Launch Afib Task Force in Brussels

    • ICU
    • 05/12/2011

    Leaders from policy, medical and patient environments address European heart health in joint approach On November 29th 2011 in the European Parliame

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    Caution Advised When Considering Patient and Colleague Feedback On Doc

    • ICU
    • 31/10/2011

    Official assessments of a doctor's professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the tendency for some doctors to receive

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