Search Tag: Critical Care
2019 02 Aug
A study of the Massey Family Foundation Emergency Critical Care Center – EC3 found that the implementation of emergency department ICUs led to improved survival rates and better patient care. Opened in February 2015, EC3 is a highly advanced critical care centre, next to the emergency department at Michigan Medical. The unit is equipped with five...Read more
2019 30 May
(I expert, I question, I answer) A selection from the ICU Management & Practice I-I-I blog. Have you got something to say? Visit https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/list/blog or contact [email protected] Peter Pronovost Chief Clinical Transformation Officer - University Hospitals Cleveland, USA @PeterPronovost ...Read more
2019 30 May
According to a new study, opioids prescribed in the intensive care unit (ICU) do not drive risks for continued use or prescriptions. The findings were presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2019 International Meeting in Dallas, TX. Opiate abuse is a major healthcare issue. In the U.S., opioid-related deaths have increased more than three-fold...Read more
2019 29 May
A recent study conducted in France investigated the association of age with long-term mortality after discharge from the ICU. Another subset of this discussion relates to the critically ill elderly patients who have higher mortality compared to younger patients as well as longer lengths of stay in the ICU prior to death. There has been a...Read more
2019 28 May
Euroanaesthesia 2019 begins this 1-3 June in Vienna, Austria, and the ICU Management & Practice team will be there. Euroanaesthesia is Europe's largest annual event showcasing the latest and the most relevant knowledge in the field of anaesthesia. The scientific programme this year, developed by the Scientific Committee under the chairmanship...Read more
2020 28 Nov
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS TO NOV 28-30 AND CHANGED TO VIRTUAL MEETING. Find European Society of Anaesthesiology on Social Media Read more
2019 22 May
Eighteen Actionable Patient Safety Solutions are the key to zero preventable patient deaths in our hospitals. What are the patient safety processes that every hospital administrator and healthcare professional should adopt today to avoid preventable patient harm and death in hospitals? It’s an unfortunate fact of the medical profession...Read more
2019 30 Apr
A new study in the journal Critical Care demonstrates the feasibility of implementing veno-venous extracorporeal CO 2 removal (vv-ECCO 2 R), in combination with non-invasive neurally adjusted ventilator assist (NIV-NAVA), for the treatment of severe acute exacerbation of COPD. Investigators conducted a physiological study of the electrical activity...Read more
2019 27 Mar
Dr. Matthieu Komorowski, Consultant in Intensive Care and Machine Learning researcher at Imperial College, London, talked about critical care in space at the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine . One of the most distinct features about his talk (apart from the fact that it was about space), was that instead...Read more
2019 20 Mar
At the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine , Prof. Hannah Wunsch , senior scientist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, talked about the use of opioids in the ICU and how it could be related to patient use of opioids after hospitalisation. She highlighted the importance of exploring the opioid prescribing...Read more
2020 01 Dec
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS TO DEC 1-4TH AND CHANGED TO VIRTUAL CONGRESS. Find WFPICCS on Social Media Read more
2019 20 Feb
Executive Summary Doctors are trained in medical science, and to consider the astute point-of-view of Dr. Daniel A. Lichtenstein , the foremost expert in c ritical care ultrasound , on the "art of reasoning" being applied at work is indeed a revelation. This is how he describes the uniqueness of ultrasound as a clinical tool . ...Read more
2019 13 Feb
Executive Summary The majority of critical care patients (80%) undergo central venous catheterisations (CVCs) for administration of fluids or blood products; haemodynamic monitoring; haemodialysis or transvenous pacing. In this upcoming article in HealthManagement the Journal, Dr. Nidhi Nikhani, Assistant Medical Director at Banner Telehealth...Read more
2019 06 Feb
In the ICU, clinicians attending to a patient on the brink of death may neglect to carefully consider what the patient is experiencing: to be unable to speak, be stripped naked, have tubes inserted into multiple orifices, have their arms restrained, and to be poked, and prodded – all while family is torn away. Clinicians also may not remember that...Read more