Respiratory Muscle Dysfunction - What Helps?
The harmful side-effects of mechanical ventilation on respiratory muscles are addressed by two recent publications, which provide an overview... Read more
Taking the Tablet: Improved Resuscitation Performance and Documentation
Documenting in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitations in real time simulations on a tablet-based app improved both clinical performance and... Read more
Niguarda Hospital Evolves with Mindray Patient Monitoring Systems
Based in the vibrant city of Milan, the second-most populous city in Italy, Niguarda Hospital provides a wide range of medical services to the... Read more
Cochrane: High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation Not Supported for ARDS
High-frequency oscillation ventilation does not reduce hospital and 30-day mortality in acute respiratory distress patients, compared to conventional... Read more
Intra-Osseous Access in Adults: An Indispensable Tool
Intra-osseous (IO) infusion is an indispensable tool in life-threatening situations that can be learned quickly and easily, according to a systematic... Read more
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To Have a Healthy Work Environment, Mind the Gap
Staffing. Burnout. Retention. Quality. You don’t often speak to direct care nurses or nurse managers about their units without these common themes emerging. They’re all elements associated with the health of the nursing work environment — a topic that the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has been studying for over a decade. ... Read more
Zoom On: Rolf Rossaint
Rolf Rossaint is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesiology of the University Hospital at the RWTH University Aachen, Germany. Prof. Rossaint has published several high-quality studies dealing with the treatment of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). He has also been actively involved in research on the pathophysiology... Read more
Zoom On: Sapna Kudchadkar
Sapna Kudchadkar is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of interest include sleep disturbances in critically ill children, paediatric delirium prevention and management, sedation, and paediatric ICU rehabilitation... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
High-End Transport Ventilation Around the World
2015 28 Oct
Interview with Georg Keunecke of FAI rent-a-jet AG on the global use of the HAMILTON-T1 as an ICU transport ventilator. Georg Keunecke is the Chief Flight Paramedic and Representative for Medical Devices with FAI rent-a-jet AG (dba Flight Ambulance International). Headquartered at the Nuremberg International Airport, the company serves... Read more
Infection Control for Ventilators in the Battle against COVID-19
2020 24 Mar
The Current Situation and Challenge of COVID-19 Over 170,000 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19. The number of confirmed cases outside the Chinese mainland has already reached over 90,000. On March 11th, WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. No doubt that mechanical ventilation is one of the most effective therapy strategies... Read more
Respiratory Support Strategies For Severe COVID-19
2020 12 Mar
At this moment, over 100,000 people has been diagnosed with COVID-19. The number of confirmed cases outside the Chinese mainland has already reached over 25,000. Countries like Japan, South Korea, Italy and Iran have reported thousands of COVID-19 cases. AS the World Health Organization warned that "the window of opportunity is narrowing" to contain... Read more
From Our Journals
Managing Change to Improve Clinical Outcomes
In 1989, Professor Andrew Walton founded Connect Health,... Read more
Coagulopathy During Cardiac Surgery: The Role of Factor Concentrates
The EACTS/EACTA Guidelines on patient blood management for adult cardiac... Read more
Education and Training in Affidea – Developing a New Generation of Leaders
Affidea is known for clinical excellence and operational efficiency, but... Read more
Nursing on the move: cross border hiring
Addressing obstacles for successful hiring How to navigate... Read more
Nosocomial Pneumonia
This review discusses some of the key advances from the 2005 ATS / IDSA... Read more
Heat Waves: a climate change challenge to hospitals’ resilience
The scientifically based forecast of more frequent devastating natural... Read more
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BeneVision N22/N19 Patient Monitor
Patient Monitoring and Life Support
Always in sight, always in mind Features Mindray believes the best way to predict the future is to create it. The revolutionary BeneVision N22/N19 is designed to optimize user experience by satisfying all your clinical demands....
iLA Membrane Ventilator
The world’s only pumpless extrapulmonary gas exchange system
The iLA membrane ventilator is an extrapulmonary ventilation system which is used to remove carbon dioxide. The heart pumps blood through the iLA membrane ventilator as it does through a natural organ. The iLA membrane ventilator “breathes” outside...
A7 Anesthesia Workstation
Visible Precision
Precise Control Enjoy maximum performance at all stages of anesthesia A full range of ICU grade ventilation modes meet your demands through all the stages of anesthesia. Digital gas mixer with safe low flow by Optimizer The digital...
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Standardized extracorporeal tubing set
Standardized extracorporeal tubing sets for short-term use • Standardized extracorporeal tubing set • Available in three different sizes (for infants, pediatrics and adults) • Approved for 6 hours of use • Rheoparin coating, the established Medos heparin...
SV300 Ventilator
Patient Monitoring and Life Support
Features SV 300 is a state-of-the-art ventilator that’s simple to configure, easy to operate and versatile in use. It equips with extensive ventilation modes that can treats pediatric and adult patients with all acuity levels at ICUs and Intermediate...