Core knowledge in critical care medicine 2016

... (GDP) icine are published in journals other than those included in the 'critical care medicine' category Furthermore, a proportion of articles published in journals included in the 'critical care ... example, in order to search for articles published in 'intensive care medicine' originating from Europe, the following phrase was used (where 'AD' means 'address'): intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... diagnostic coding in intensive care patients Crit Care 2008, 12:R95 Martin GS: Epidemiology studies in critical care Crit Care 2006, 10:136-137 US National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ... to validate coding strategies in individual databases As a critical care community, we desperately need well-conceived, comprehensive and accurately collected healthcar...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... NTproBNP measurement should form part of routine monitoring of the patient once they have been admitted Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests References Coquet ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Collinson occurs in a range of other clinical conditions other than cardiac dysfunction, including sepsis [11] Values are frequently raised in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... significantly prolonged length of stay, increased economic burden, and an almost twofold increased risk of death Two other examples: in women younger than 65, influenza was shown to increase mortality ... Probably one of the largest investigations was presented by Pittet and colleagues [15], who found a crude mortality of 50% in critically ill patients with infections versus 1...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... data We abstracted data from the results of the trial including the number of patients in the treatment and placebo arms that were included in the final data analysis, and the mortality rate in ... increase in mortality with the therapy, and all of these trials were stopped early for harm [4,21,22] The seven trials showing a statistically significant differ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) References Lipman J, Lichtman AR: International perspectives on critical care: critical care in Africa Critical Care Clin 1997, ... online http://ccforum.com/content/6/1/022 In 1999, a faculty of Critical Care Medicine was established in the College of Medicine of South Africa...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... a large carinal laceration [8] Monitoring Telemedicine An infrastructure for providing intensivist-led care from a distance is receiving much attention Two years ago a report examined the poor ... report examined the poor uptake of information technology into medicine and presented a way of incorporating a technological change into the process of intensive care provision [9] Two of th...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... that outlined by Laine and Davidoff [7], because in many cases our patients are unable to assimilate the information and participate in meaningful decision making However, the principle still applies ... psychological needs as well as some medical aspects of care such as pain management in children than in the past Being aware of our shortcomings and striving toward their eliminatio...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... a critical care society in 1996, the first national critical care society in mainland China was established in 1997, called the Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine (CSCCM), and currently ... respected by other specialties Junior physicians interested in critical care training can choose to be intensivists after they finish or years of fellowship training in s...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... have markedly improved safety by standardizing practices and investing in safety training and research [71,73] Three simple strategies to change medicine’s approach to medication errors have ... result in meaningful safety improvement Instead, the approach of identifying failures and redesigning faulty systems appears to be a more promising way to reduce human error Competing interest...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... on Training Standards serve as useful guides both for the intensivist who seeks training and for faculty intensivists who will be training their colleagues in this important skill Competing interests ... hours of image interpretation training, and 12 hours of hands on training with a faculty trainee ratio of 3:1) The internet-based training has 12 hours that covers basic CCE The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20