Search Tag: Pandemics

ICU Management

4th-world-sepsis-congress

2023 25 Apr

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ICU Management

Critical-care-staffing-in-pandemics

2023 11 Jul

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impact on healthcare, with millions of cases and deaths reported globally. Healthcare workers have been particularly affected, experiencing increased mental health issues, burnout, and moral distress. The pandemic has led to higher levels of anxiety, depression, stress reactions, sleep disturbances, and posttraumatic...Read more

Health Management

Managing-efficiently-future-pandemics

2022 11 Mar

Pandemics, like the one we are currently experiencing, claim millions of lives, destroy economic stability and disrupt the wellbeing of society. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the lack of preparedness of healthcare systems across the globe and revealed its fragilities. The Omicron wave and particularly the vaccination process at a global scale,...Read more

ICU Management

Covid-19-and-the-history-of-pandemics

2020 19 May

How are we dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we can learn from similar diseases over the last few centuries. The face of human history has always been pockmarked by disease, in more ways than one. In our current privileged world of technology, gene sequencing and micro RNA, the possibility of a new disease that kept us inside...Read more

Executive Health Management

New-solutions-to-face-mask-shortages

2020 25 Mar

With the deficit in vital mask supplies rapidly increasing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers around the world are developing alternative solutions.   You may also like : Hospitals’ Creative Responses to Coronavirus Challenges   Self-Sanitising Mask A research team at Northwestern University led by Jiaxing Huang, a professor of...Read more

Executive Health Management

Covid-19-outbreak-declared-a-pandemic

2020 11 Mar

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, ie the ‘worldwide spread’ of a new disease.   You may also like: COVID-19 Forces Healthcare Congresses Cancellations   “We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of...Read more

ICU Management

The-next-ebola-can-we-do-better

2015 24 Nov

The human catastrophe of the Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 shocked the world’s conscience and created an unprecedented crisis. An independent panel of global experts has called for critical reforms to prevent future pandemics. The group of 19 experts, convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical...Read more