Search Tag: intensive care
2016 20 Oct
The Perth 2016 ASM will be the pre-eminent critical care conference in Australasia for the calendar year and will be an important platform that will allow doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners to meaningfully connect and discuss new developments and research in the field of intensive and critical care. Our scientific programme will feature...Read more
2016 01 Aug
Intensive Care Units are an integral part of the healthcare system. Approximately 164,000 patients are admitted to ICUs in England, Wales and Northern Island each year. Similarly, there are around 4 million ICU admissions per year in the U.S. While ICUs' are a regular feature in all high, middle and low income countries, disparities still exist in...Read more
2016 26 Aug
ACCCN is a foundation member of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN) and a member association to the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and currently maintains a representative on WFCCN. ANZICS-The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society is the...Read more
2017 27 Jan
Every year chief investigators for the biggest critical care trials of the year are invited to Belfast to present and discuss their research, aiming to answer the quest "should we implement the results of this study into our practice?", This is an intimate event held in the stunning Titanic Centre each January. Further details on #CCR17 will be available...Read more
2016 08 Sep
LICAGE , founded in 1987, brings together Health professionals from all over Europe and beyond with an interest in hepato-biliary diseases and liver transplantation. As usual, this LICAGE meeting will be a friendly meeting allowing education, discussion, and networking with doctors interested in the liver in acute situations. The organisers are planning...Read more
2016 04 Jun
Welcome, bienvenue , to the official website for the 8th World Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care Societies to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 5-8, 2016. We are excited to get things underway and have a busy 12 months ahead as we plan for the scientific and social aspects of the meeting. As in the past,...Read more
2016 02 Jun
Safety of both patients and doctors was a key theme of Euroanaesthesia 2016, meeting in London. The Sir Robert Macintosh lecture, named after the first professor of anaesthetics outside the United States, was delivered by Sven Erik Gisvold (pictured), Professor of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, from St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway. Departments...Read more
2017 03 Jun
Euroanaesthesia is Europe’s largest annual event showcasing the latest and the most relevant knowledge with medical experts active in the field of anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care, emergency medicine and pain treatment. This international event gathers thousands of delegates and exhibitors from over 80 countries. Upwards of 6000...Read more
2016 31 May
Going under anesthetic is a common, necessary but sometimes daunting experience for many patients. Despite advancements in anesthesia delivery, patients can still suffer from side effects, including a longer than normal emergence from the effects of the anesthetic, vomiting or even, at the more serious but much less frequent end, damage to brain cells....Read more
2016 26 May
ISCCM Pune Branch and The Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels decided to come together to conduct this symposium, consisting of a select set of presentations made at the preceding ISICEM, Brussels, in Pune, India. Eminent faculty who will have participated in ISICEM at Brussels in March 2016 have been invited...Read more
2016 23 Sep
The 15th NYSORA Annual Symposium has something for everyone! We invited a mix of “all stars” and “rising stars”, speakers and instructors from around the World for this one of a kind knowledge-sharing event. The latest Ultrasound-Guided injection techniques, such as TAP, PEC, and motor-sparing knee blocks will be covered by some of the most respected...Read more
2016 16 Jun
The “Neurosciences in Intensive Care International Symposium” (NICIS) intends to promote Neuroscience as a central paradigm for research in the realm of critical care medicine. The current NICIS held on June the 16th-17th 2016 is titled “Neuro-inflammation in Critical illness: From brain signaling to brain insult” . The NICIS 2016 builds on success...Read more
2016 11 Mar
Todd Dorman takes office as President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) in February 2016. He is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Vice Chair for Critical Care Services, Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine; Senior Associate Dean for Education Coordination; Associate Dean for Continuing Medical...Read more
2016 11 Mar
There has been good progress in the last decade to ensure that the patient voice is heard at all levels, including in research and service planning. However there is still more to be done, and this article sets out the case for meaningful intensive care patient and relative involvement and how this can be achieved. Why Involve Former Intensive...Read more
2016 29 Feb
Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent highlights integration and personalisation as key themes in the future of intensive care medicine, writing in Critical Care Medicine , the journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. “We must push critical care medicine to its limits by incorporating new technology, collaborating with other hospital departments, limiting...Read more
2016 18 Feb
CytoSorbents Corporation ( CTSO ), a critical care immunotherapy leader commercializing its flagship CytoSorb® blood filter to treat deadly inflammation in critically-ill and cardiac surgery patients around the world, announced its agenda for the 26th Symposium for Intensive Medicine + Intensive Care in Bremen, Germany from February 24-26, 2016....Read more
2016 01 Feb
Joint US-Chile research has confirmed copper as an additional weapon in the fight against healthcare-associated infections, demonstrating its efficacy in a major paediatric hospital where it contributed to a safer environment for vulnerable patients. The spread of infections via frequently-touched surfaces surrounding patients is a serious concern...Read more
2016 25 Jan
Dr Michael Nurok is the medical director of the Cardiac-Surgical Intensive Care Unit within the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, he was instrumental in creating the first Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, and served as the unit’s first...Read more
2016 01 Jun
EuroELSO was formed in 2011 in Paris to better represent the European ECLS community while still maintaining strong ties with the host ELSO. The aim of EuroELSO is to promote teaching for those delivering ECLS services in Europe. Crucial to this is the annual International Congress. The congress will be held in Glasgow, historically known as Clas-gu...Read more
2016 10 Jan
Using a survey, with eight cases differing only in regard to the gender of the patient, researchers in Sweden have demonstrated an absence of a gender bias related to ICU admission in Swedish hospitals. Survey results show that female physicians were more likely to admit patients than their male colleagues, regardless of the gender of the patient. The...Read more