Search Tag: multidisciplinary team

ICU Management

The-multiple-roles-of-the-critical-care-pharmacist

2024 12 Mar

  Critical care pharmacists use their specialist knowledge to optimise medication for their patients. This article looks at the various roles of the critical care pharmacist within the multidisciplinary team.   Introduction The pharmacist's role in critical care is well-developed in the United Kingdom (UK), USA, Australia, New Zealand,...Read more

ICU Management

Patients-and-families

2023 30 Nov

Collaboration between critical care doctors, patients and families is essential to managing critically ill patients. Promoting open communication, shared decision-making, and emotional support is essential to ensure a patient-centred approach in critical care settings.   ‏ ‏ Communication plays a crucial role in a critical care setting....Read more

IT Management

The-politics-of-tech-adoption-in-healthcare

2019 13 Nov

A new report looking into the development and use of emerging technologies, notably artificial intelligence (AI), for healthcare has revealed concerns among some clinicians as to the real reason behind tech adoption. Within the NHS, the adoption of AI and other data-driven technologies is largely based on a “political or commercial imperative”...Read more

Executive Health Management

Challenges-and-opportunities-for-laboratory-testing-1

2019 15 Mar

It is undeniable that laboratory testing is vital for the diagnosis, prognostication and therapeutic monitoring of human disease. Despite the many advances made for achieving a high degree of quality and safety in the analytical part of diagnostic testing, many hurdles in the total testing process remain, for example in the  preanalytical phase when...Read more

ICU Management

Interprofessional-teamwork-in-the-icu

2019 24 Jan

Panacea or illusion? Reflections on key research insights into interprofessional teamwork in the ICU with a critical yet optimistic view for its future. Over the years, interprofessional teamwork in the intensive care unit (ICU) has been viewed as a panacea to most ills and indeed described as a core value of critical care practice...Read more