Search Tag: ICU

2014 18 Mar

According to an Australian/New Zealand study, released early in JAMA to coincide with its presentation at the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, it appears that during the years 2000 to 2012, a reduction in the risk of death for critically ill patients suffering from severe sepsis or septic shock was registered. This...Read more

2014 18 Mar

B. Braun Space GlucoseControl From Measurement to Management of Blood Glucose B. Braun Satellite Symposium ISICEM 2014 Wednesday, 19 March 2014 • 18:15 - 19:45 h • Copper Hall Chairman: M.D. Ph.D. Jean-Charles Preiser (Belgium) The relevance of blood glucose management in the critically ill –  A latest insight into the benefits with SGC...Read more

2014 18 Mar

Edwards Lunch Symposium Thursday, March 20 12.30–13.30 Arc Room (level 3) Improving glycemic control with continuous glucose monitoring Chair : A. Rhodes (London, England) Association between glucose levels and patient outcomes –analysis of a large patient dataset A.Rhodes (London, England) Continuous glucosemonitoring in ICU...Read more

2014 18 Mar

Root™ is an intuitive patient monitoring and connectivity platform designed to transform patient care from the operating theater to the general ward through a powerful combination of the following high-impact innovations: Radical-7® Instant interpretation of Masimo’s breakthrough rainbow® and SET® measurements via Root’s intuitive navigation...Read more

2014 18 Mar

MAQUET and Swisstom are pleased to announce their distribution partnership for the monitoring and diagnostic product Swisstom BB2 Acute Lung Injury is still a leading cause of death for intensive care patients. Swisstom BB2 was especially developed to continuously monitor lung function of ICU patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. It offers...Read more

2014 17 Mar

According to a recent study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative and published earlier this year on the website of the journal Critical Care Medicine, the implementation of a set of ICU practices aimed at encouraging patient’s mobility and decrease sedation can effectively reduce delirium...Read more

2014 14 Mar

The MetaVision clinical information system will be featured at the 34th ISICEM in Brussels, Belgium iMDsoft ® is committed to providing clinical information systems that ensure the best possible intensive care. MetaVision® for critical care is built to deliver results in areas of the hospital with the highest cost, morbidity, mortality and revenue....Read more

2014 08 Mar

Interviewee Dr. Emanuel Rivers Vice Chairman and Director of Research Department of Emergency Medicine, Senior Staff Attending, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Surgery (Surgical Critical Care) Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Michigan, Clinical Professor of Emergency, Medicine and Surgery, Wayne State University,...Read more

2014 06 Mar

Innovative acute care ventilator provides progressive breath technology for improved patient comfort and ease of use for clinicians Covidien plc, a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognised innovator in patient monitoring and respiratory care devices, has announced its Puritan Bennett™ 980 ventilator has received European...Read more

2014 24 Feb

New research findings, published online in the February 19 edition of JAMA Psychiatry, show that delirium in older patients hospitalised for acute medical illness could be prevented with nightly administration of a melatonin agonist. A team of researchers led by Kotaro Hatta, MD, PhD, University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, conducted a multicenter,...Read more

2014 24 Feb

Oral hygiene has become a standard procedure in the fight against ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in today’s hospitals. Intersurgical is introducing an extended range of oral care products to meet the increasing diversified needs of the practitioners.  OroCare Aspire is a new toothbrush with suction-only properties. This brush closes the...Read more

2014 21 Feb

In a recent study published in the March edition of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, a team of researchers share their findings on the diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). With the aims of quantifying and characterising unjustified antimicrobial use for VAP as well as identifying risk factors associated...Read more

2014 31 Jan

Researchers of the School of Industrial Engineering of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), have patented an innovative device able to minimise the risks associated to emergency tracheotomies and the time needed to perform planned tracheotomies. By combining mechanical and...Read more

2014 30 Jan

According to a new study, the largest of its kind, U.S. hospital intensive care units (ICUs) show uneven compliance with infection prevention policies. The findings are published in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC),...Read more

2014 23 Jan

According to a study recently published in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care, admistering statins to critically ill patients before they were admitted to hospital may help prevent delirium, a state of sudden, severe confusion. Lead author Valerie Page, Watford General Hospital in Watford, England,...Read more

2014 21 Jan

According to a new study, an innovative intensive care unit (ICU) algorithm could assist clinicians in their decision making when it comes to discharging patients from crowded ICUs, a new study shows. Researcher Ashok Palagiri, MD, an internist at Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri, who presented the findings at the Society of Critical...Read more

2014 14 Jan

hTEE QuickStart App Provides ICU Bedside Tutorials & Support ImaCor, Inc., the developer of the world's first and only hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiography (hTEE™) technology, has released the hTEE QuickStart mobile application. This app complements ImaCor's comprehensive hTEE training program and provides clinicians easy access to how-to...Read more

2014 09 Jan

Rapid capture and delivery of X-ray images helped save lives for patients injured during Boston Marathon bombings, says radiology department manager Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Mass.), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, installed three Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray Systems, two  Carestream  DRX-Evolution...Read more

2013 30 Dec

Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., installed a Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System with Carestream’s specialised paediatric software to help enhance care in its neonatal ICU. The mobile system is equipped with Carestream’s wireless, small-format DRX 2530C detector that fits easily into a neonatal incubator X-ray tray. The cesium iodide detector...Read more

2013 10 Dec

According to a recent study conducted by Dr. Craig Lilly, a professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School and Director of the eICU Program at UMass Memorial Medical Center, and published online in the journal CHEST, it was found that a virtual ICU, staffed by one specialist doctor and three critical care nurses at the service...Read more

2013 21 Nov

New healthcare solutions developed with users and patients help improve the recovery process and treatment options for patients while supporting medical staff in their work Healthcare is constantly changing. The best way to deal with this change is for all parties in the sector to join forces. Philips is putting this principle into action under...Read more

2013 20 Nov

As stated in a recently published report by the national health policy institute NEHI entitled ‘Emerging Best Practices for Tele-ICU Care Nationally’, the use of tele-medicine in intensive care units is about to undergo significant transformation with emerging best practices driving scalability, diversity and competition and providing valuable precedents...Read more

2013 06 Nov

A recently published study finds electronic intensive care units (eICUs) to be an efficient tool in the provision of around-the-clock intensive care to patients in remote locations.   Through the use of telecommunications technology an eICU diagnoses and accordingly treats patients in the ICU remotely. Video monitors, two-way...Read more

2013 29 Oct

Critically ill patients can benefit from the newly developed Philips media-enabled daylight simulator that offers dynamic energising daylight and calming visual sequences. Introduced by Berlin’s Charité Campus Virchow Clinic in cooperation with GRAFT architects, this new LED based tool is part of a pioneering stress-reducing concept entitled 'Parametric...Read more

2013 14 Oct

According to a new study co-led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Yale New Haven Health System Center for Healthcare Solutions a simple procedural change can reduce patient acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by approximately 40 percent. Using disposable gowns and gloves on an intensive care unit...Read more

2013 08 Oct

Patient data management systems do enhance standards of care, said Professor Gernot Marx (Germany) at ESICM 2013. At his own hospital in Aachen, there were excellent results after the introduction of a patient data management system. Mortality in patients ventilated for more than 24 hours reduced to 24% as against the German target of 35%.   There...Read more

2013 08 Oct

Medication errors can be prevented, but there is no one simple solution, according to the expert speakers at ESICM LIVES 2013.  Medication errors in the ICU are frequent, with a negative impact on patients. Andreas Valentin (Austria) suggested that to improve the situation, intensivists need to raise awareness, prevent errors and develop a culture...Read more

2013 15 Aug

Patients recovering from serious illness have been shown to be at risk for developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Studies show that around 1 in 10 patients with an ICU stay of 48 hours or more develop PTSD (Jones et al. 2007).   Since the 1980s, it has been known that patients don’t tend to remember much from their time in ICU and...Read more

2013 15 Aug

Several studies the last decade have revealed that errors and adverse events are common in the ICU. Errors have become the norm rather than the exception in most ICUs—for physicians as well as nurses. Efforts have been made to prevent errors and adverse events from occurring, but evidence showing that preventive measures are effective is scarce....Read more

2013 15 Aug

Researcher and head of intensive care at Haukeland University Hospital, Professor Hans Flaatten believes that two goals essential to quality intensive care are good intra- and inter-team cooperation and respect, and constantly implementing the latest research findings into intensive care guidelines and practice. Introduction Professor...Read more