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2024 30 Jan
Sepsis, characterised by severe organ dysfunction, is a major cause of hospitalisation and mortality globally. The WHO recognises sepsis as a significant global health concern, urging efforts to enhance outcomes for affected individuals. Despite no new targeted therapies emerging for sepsis in recent decades, advancements in ICU management, shifts...Read more
2022 14 Oct
An overview of antimicrobial resistance and its impact on clinical outcomes in the ICU. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been defined as a major threat to healthcare and to humanity by the World Health Organization (WHO 2015). The level of evidence for the association between AMR and hospital deaths, hospital length of stay and healthcare-associated...Read more
2017 09 May
Endotracheal mechanical ventilation (MV) is a major treatment of life-threatening conditions, but weaning from MV remains a great challenge, and time of extubation a critical issue in the ICU management, says an Editorial published in the journal Annals of Translational Medicine. Extubation failure can occur in 10-20% of cases with a higher ICU mortality...Read more
2016 26 Dec
As 2016 comes to a close, we wish you all the best for 2017, and take a look back at our most-read stories, journal articles and Tweets in 2016. Thank you to our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent and our Editorial Board for their wise counsel and contributions, and to our authors and readers - the expert, thoughtful, innovative and inspiring...Read more
2015 07 Dec
ICU Management @ICU_Management recently gained its 4000th follower (4,025 at time of writing). Thank you for following us, and we are pleased to follow and learn from all the amazing critical care Tweeters out there. Several members of ICU Management's Editorial Board are on Twitter. To make it easy for you to follow them, please see our list....Read more
2015 15 Oct
Nestlé Health Science and GE Healthcare are announcing a collaboration to improve nutrition monitoring for patients in intensive care units (ICU). The collaboration aims to connect the technology that delivers nutrients to the patient with the advanced analytic technology that measures the specific nutrition a patient needs. This will enable an integrated...Read more
2015 29 Sep
ICU Management will be exhibiting at ESICM LIVES next week. Drop by Stand 21 to pick up your complimentary copy of ICU Management’s latest issue. Our Communications Director, Katya Mitreva, Christian Marolt, Editor-in-Chief Healthcare IT, HealthManagement.org and ICU Management Managing Editor, Claire Pillar look forward to seeing you....Read more
2014 06 Oct
An ICU Management staffer is now the proud owner of a “Cappucino with Claudio Ronco” badge. We caught up with Prof. Ronco at the recent European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress in Barcelona. With smartphones and tablets being ubiquitous amongst physicians, Prof. Ronco’s YouTube channel offers short discussions of important topics in critical...Read more