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Infection Management
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels, Belgium Infections are common in many hospital departments, but no more so than on the intensive care unit (ICU) where, in a recent European study of more than 3000 ICU patients, 37% were infected at some point...
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Improving Outcomes: ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting
Authors Brian Anderson PhD FANZCA FJFICM Scientific Convenor, Associate Professor Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, New Zealand Charles Bradfield MB BS FANZCA, Congress Convenor Clinical Advisor for Information, Services/Management Auckland City Hospital,...
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Review: Euroanaesthesia 2005, Vienna
Author Gordon Drummond FRCA, Scientific Programme Chairman, ESA, University Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine Edinburgh, UK C orrespondence [email protected] W ebsite www.euroanesthesia.org Dr Drummond reviews the extremely successful...
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Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in Germany – the Gap Between Perception and Practice
Author Frank Martin Brunkhorst MD, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller- University Jena, Germany C orrespondence [email protected] A cknowledgement This study was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grant No:...
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Performance Evaluation of European Pressure Sensors
Author Jean-François Cochard Surgical and trauma intensive care unit, Pellegrin Hospital, Bordeaux, France C orrespondence [email protected] Dr Cochard explains the significance of inaccuracy with pressure sensors, describes a simple technique to evaluate accuracy and reports on...
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ICU Europe: What do We Know and How can We Improve?
A uthors David L. Edbrooke Intensivist Gary H. Mills Intensivist Daniela Negrini Statistician Medical Economics and Research Centre Sheffield (MERCS) W ebsite www.mercs.org.uk David Edbrooke calls for intensive care professionals to participate in a new initiative to identify and...
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Medical Emergency Teams (METS): Let Us be Careful
A uthor Jean-Louis Vincent Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Correspondence [email protected] Where Will We Find the Doctors to Fill These Posts? Professor Vincent presents his concerns over MET-type systems and...
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Medical Emergency Teams (METS):Preventive Practice
Author Ken Hillman MBBS, FRCA, FANZCA, FJFICM Professor of Intensive Care, University of New South Wales, Director, The Simpson Centre for health Services Research Co-Director, Division of Critical Care, Liverpool Health Service, Sydney, Australia. C orrespondence [email protected]...
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Interview with Dr. Julian F. Bion, President of ESICM
Interviewee Julian F. Bion, FRCP, FRCA, MD, Reader in Intensive Care Medicine, University Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, UK President, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) In an interview with Kirstie Edwards, Dr Julian Bion...
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SCCM Milestone: 35th Annual Congress
Author Submitted by the Society of Critical Care Medicine Connie A. Jastremski MS, RN, FCCM, Vice President, Patient Care Services and Nursing, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, New York Lena M. Napolitano MD, FCCM, Professor of Surgery/Chief, Surgical Critical Care,...
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