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4 Things To Start Doing Today to Reduce Medical Errors
1. Practise Good Self-Care It’s vital for your personal wellbeing that you take adequate breaks from work, including time for relaxation and respite in the form of hobbies and outdoor activities. Yoga and meditation can be particularly helpful for maintaining a balanced and clear mind, which equips you for making good, logical decisions that are 1
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Bedside Ultrasonography: 6 Success Factors for Implementation
Nidhi Nikhani, MD, shares 6 steps to implement ultrasonography in critical care, based on implementing ultrasound-guided central venous catheterisation (CVC) at Banner Health. 1. Define clinical challenges to be solved by implementing bedside ultrasound Banner Health faced the challenge of placing peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC1
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Critical Care in China
Zoom On Bin Du Prof. Bin Du, MD, obtained his medical degree in Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in 1994, when he joined the Department of Critical Care Medicine at PUMC Hospital. In 2005 he become a Professor and the Director of Medical ICU, PUMC Hospital. Dr. Bin Du is the Past President of the Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine (1
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Critical Care Skeptic: Zoom On Paul Marik
Dr Marik is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and was an ICU attending at Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto, South Africa. During this time he obtained a M1
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Burnout Syndrome in Critical Care: What Needs to Happen Now?
Following the release of the U.S. Critical Care Societies Collaborative Call to Action on Burnout Syndrome , ICU Management & Practice interviewed co-authors Ruth Kleinpell and Vicki Good from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Q. Is there a tendency for health professionals experiencing burnout not to admit it or recognise it? 1
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Zoom On: Ella Segaran, Advanced Critical Care Dietitian, St Mary's Hospital, London
In her clinical role Ella Segaran works on the general / trauma ICU as the advanced critical care dietitian at St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. She is passionate about clinical care, education and research and about raising the profile of nutrition in our patients. Ella says that she is lucky to have a full-t1
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Zoom On: Massimo Antonelli, President, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 2016-2018
Prof. Massimo Antonelli is President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. He took up office as President at the ESICM congress in Milan in October 2016. Dr. Antonelli has been Professor of Intensive Care and Anesthesiology at the “Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore” Rome Italy since November 1999. He serves as Director of the Ge1
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Zoom On: Samuel Brown, Director, Center for Humanizing Critical Care
Samuel Brown , MD, is Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He is also Director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care and Assistant Director, Critical Care Echocardiography Service at Intermountain Medical Cen1
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Zoom On: Karen McQuillan, President, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, 2015-2016
Karen A. McQuillan, MS, RN, CNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, FAAN, is President of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). Karen received her Bachelors of Nursing and Masters of Science in Trauma/Critical Care Nursing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She has worked since 1987 as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the R Adams Cowley S1
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Zoom On: Pedro Póvoa, Polyvalent ICU, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, Lisbon
Professor Pedro Póvoa, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Nova Medical School, New University of Lisbon in Portugal, and Coordinator of the Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier , CHLO in Lisbon. Prof. Póvoa is Associate Editor of Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva , and is a member of the ed1
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