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17th Annual Critical Care Symposium
2020 23 Jun
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Peterborough City Hospital One for all – standardising medical equipment
2019 26 Jul
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is widely used in hospitals across the country. However, as these systems are often shared between departments, and consultants may work at more than one hospital within a trust, there is a clear advantage to choosing instruments from a single supplier wherever possible. Jim McWilliams, Associate Director for Technical... Read more
A solid future for point-of-care ultrasound in intensive care
2019 19 Jul
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an established tool for the rapid assessment and diagnosis of patients across a variety of medical disciplines, not least in the high-octane environment of intensive care medicine. Dr. Timm Steuber, senior consultant and head of the ICU at Evangelisches Krankenhaus Unna, Germany, discusses his day-to-day... Read more
Anaesthesia at the foot of Kilimanjaro
2019 19 Jul
The Radboud university medical centre (UMC) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has worked in collaboration with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania for a number of years, offering support and education for its staff to improve overall healthcare in the area. As part of this partnership, clinicians from the department of anaesthesia... Read more
Perioperative Management of Chronic Cannabis Users
2019 26 Jun
Marijuana is one of the most commonly used recreational drug today. Cannabis can have systemic reactions that could potentially affect perioperative outcomes. In this review, the authors outline the most important pharmacological aspects and pathophysiological effects that need to be considered during the perioperative management of chronic... Read more