Search Tag: intensive care
Quality-management-the-role-of-intensive-care-registries
2016 30 Nov
To initiate, maintain and advance a quality improvement programme in your intensive care unit consumes large amounts of time and energy. There are many advantages for quality management in joining an intensive care registry; the most important is access to precisely defined data for comparative audit. Intensive Care Registries Joint...Read more
16th-international-conference-on-complex-acute-illness-iccai
2017 27 Jul
July 27-30, 2017 Politecnico di Milano in Milan Italy Conference Organizer: Giuseppe Baselli Additional meeting information coming soon! Read more
Isicem-2018-38th-international-symposium-on-intensive-care-and-emergency-medicine
2018 20 Mar
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8-reasons-to-attend-isicem
2017 28 Feb
The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) is a highly respected event on the critical care medicine calendar, and there are a host of great reasons for players throughout the industry to attend the event. Here are just a few: 1. Stay Up-to-Date with Recent Developments Every year, this world...Read more
Personalised-medicine-in-intensive-care
2017 16 Mar
The specialty of intensive care medicine grew out of the realisation that critically ill patients needed more attention and specialised treatment than could be provided on a general ward, and that many of these patients had similar clinical problems and processes, so management would be facilitated if they were grouped together in one place. Since...Read more
Professorial-clinical-units
2017 16 Mar
Advancing Research in the Intensive Care Unit via the Integration of a Nursing Professor Advances in healthcare and management strategies for the critically ill patient continue to evolve at a rate that can become challenging for individual clinicians to keep abreast. It is crucial that medical, nursing and allied health professionals use an evidence-based...Read more
Intensive-care-in-china
2017 16 Mar
Medicine in mainland China has progressed rapidly during the past 20 years along with rapid economic development. Although the number of ICU beds, doctors and nurses has increased, postgraduate professional education is still lacking. This article gives an overview of the history and current state of intensive care in China. Critical care...Read more
Embracing-safety-as-a-science-we-need-to-tell-new-stories
2017 16 Mar
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM, is Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Senior Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality and Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Pronovost is a leading authority on patient safety and developed a scientifically...Read more
Ptsd-phenomena-after-critical-illness
2017 02 May
Experiencing critical illness and intensive care can be extremely stressful. Roughly 1 in 5 critical illness survivors have clinically significant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the year after intensive care, according to an article in press in the journal Critical Care Clinics. With advances in critical care medicine, more patients...Read more
Intensive-care-in-tunisia
2017 28 May
According to the World Bank classification, Tunisia is considered a lower middle-income country, corresponding to a country with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita between USD1,026 and USD4,035 (World Bank 2015). The economic growth of Tunisia has been slowed following the 2011 Arab Spring, which was initiated in this country. Despite economic...Read more
What-is-the-role-of-benchmarking-for-intensive-care
2017 31 Jul
Although the evaluation of a single intensive care unit (ICU) over time can produce insightful results, self-reflection can lead to excessive optimism or criticism. Benchmarking against other ICUs can provide ICU staff and hospital managers with a broader view and clearer perspectives of targets for improvement. This approach is now used among hospital...Read more
5-year-trends-of-critical-care-practice-and-outcomes
2017 15 Aug
According to researchers in the U.S., analyses of patients, practices, and outcomes from a large geographically dispersed sample of adult ICUs revealed trends of increasing age and acuity, higher rates of adherence to best practice, use of non-invasive mechanical ventilation and decreased use of antimicrobials, transfusions, and duration of renal...Read more
Enabling-machine-learning-in-critical-care
2017 15 Sep
Critical care units are home to some of the most sophisticated patient technology within hospitals. In parallel, the field of machine learning is advancing rapidly and increasingly touching our lives. To facilitate the adoption of machine learning approaches in critical care, we must become better at sharing and integrating data. Greater emphasis on...Read more
Lives-forum-2018
2018 03 May
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Esicm-lives-2018-31st-european-society-of-intensive-care-medicine-annual-congress
2018 20 Oct
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29deg-smart-meeting-anesthesia-resuscitation-intensive-care
2018 09 May
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Adult-education-for-icu-management-a-better-way
2017 22 Nov
Frequently, formal education sessions crafted for medical professionals fall short in their ability to advance the competency of providers. There is a better way! It involves utilising knowledge from the adult education world and applying it to our critical care domain. A move to active teaching and learning strategies improves outcomes from the education....Read more
Vision-without-action-is-a-daydream-action-without-vision-is-a-nightmare
2017 22 Nov
The COmpetency-BAsed Training programme in Intensive Care for Europe and other world regions (CoBaTrICE) The COmpetency-BAsedTraining programme in Intensive Care Medicine (CoBaTrICE) has been the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)’s vision to achieve a unified and harmonised model of training doctors caring for critically...Read more
Eye-protection-in-anaesthesia-and-intensive-care-new-guidelines-1
2017 13 Dec
New guidelines on prevention of eye injuries during anaesthesia and intensive care have been developed by the French Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR), together with the French Ophthalmology Society and the French-speaking Intensive Care Society. The document, published in the journal Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine...Read more
Simulate-or-not-to-simulate
2018 16 Mar
Evolution in medicine and the anaesthesia context. A brief discussion about the importance and the state of the art of simulation in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. Training in simulation plays a key role in complex systems such as aviation and the nuclear industry, to investigate predictable errors that lead to adverse outcomes....Read more
Isicem-2019-39th-international-symposium-on-intensive-care-and-emergency-medicine
2019 19 Mar
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High-risk-ecmo-heroic-rescue-or-futile-care
2018 26 Sep
Over the past decade, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has become mainstream therapy in adult intensive care. Although the list of contraindications to ECMO has shrunk considerably, a few of these remain absolute, notes Dr. Graeme MacLaren in an editorial article published in the journal Critical Care. "There are a number of circumstances...Read more
Ccssa-saspen-critical-care-congress-2019
2019 28 Aug
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A-french-hospitals-journey-through-the-pandemic
2021 22 Feb
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Foch Hospital in Suresnes, France adapted its medical strategy to manage high patient flow, limited resources and staff shortages to ensure efficient patient care. Here is an overview of how the hospital rose up to the challenge. H ow should we treat patients infected with a virus we know hardly anything...Read more