Keywords: Emergency Medicine
05/01/2009
170 years of medical technology innovations
Maquet is possibly Europes oldest manufacturer of healthcare equipment. Founded in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1838 the firm initially manufactured patient chairs and other …
05/01/2009
Paediatricians for children in disasters and wars
Leonid Roshal: We are at the beginning of a long road …
04/07/2009
World Health Day 2009
During the earthquake in Central Italy on Monday more than 1.000 persons were injured. Rescue teams were immediately alerted, said interior minister Roberto Maroni. Within …
03/27/2009
The London tube and bus bombings
56 people were killed and over 700 injured when bombers staged four simultaneous attacks upon the London Transport system on 7 July 2005. …
03/01/2009
ISICEM 2009
About 5,000 physicians and healthcare workers interested in intensive care and emergency medicine will gather in Brussels for the 29th ISICEM. …
03/01/2009
Surgical checklist saves lives
As part of a global Safe Surgery Saves Lives programme, a simple, short checklist of guidelines for safe surgical procedures developed by the World Alliance for Patient Safety of …
12/20/2008
The DGU trauma network
German pre-clinical and clinical trauma care of severely injured people enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and internationally due to the countrys intensive work in …
11/21/2008
Lifebridge B2T
Worldwide interest in portable systems for cardiopulmonary support has grown significantly. While some systems are at the brink of market introduction, German company Lifebridge …
11/20/2008
Cardiohelp
Maquet has launched Cardiohelp, the world's smallest, lightest heart-lung machine, that can not only provide a total therapy solution for heart surgery, cardiology, intensive and …
11/20/2008
Emergency calls
A new kind of dialogue/navigation system that can provide emergency services with the quickest route while simultaneously taking stress into account, has been developed by Trung …
11/20/2008
A new technology upgrades dedicated ICU workstations
Developed in collaboration with international clinicians, Orchestra workstations feature state-of-the-art infusion systems. …
11/19/2008
Facing the terror
While Western Europes hospitals only carry out drills for possible terrorist events Israels medics face the real thing. During the recent Congress of Anaesthesiology and …
10/29/2008
Cardiohelp
Maquet has launched Cardiohelp, the worlds smallest, lightest heart-lung machine, that can not only provide a total therapy solution for heart surgery, cardiology, intensive and …
09/02/2008
New biomarkers in acute cardiac care
Professor C Mueller adressed the issue of new biomarkers in acute cardiac care on the ESC on Monday, 1st September. Read his comment in the following. …
09/01/2008
Scots test telemetry system
The world's first installation of Cisco's telemetry system HealthPresence has been completed at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland. The system combines video, audio and call …
09/01/2008
Update UniCel integrated systems
This summer, California-based Beckman Coulter Inc. began general distribution of its UniCel DxC 880is integrated system in Europe. …
09/01/2008
Integration of POCT into the clinical laboratory
Unlike regular laboratory analyses, which is performed by clinical pathologists and technicians in the clinical laboratory, Point of Care Testing (POCT) are devices to perform …
09/01/2008
Essential: Training staff for sudden disasters
The doors of the accident & emergency department fly open. An explosion occurred at a nuclear power station. …
09/01/2008
HeartVue 6S seeks USA marketing
Pegasus/Heartview LLC has announced that clinical studies of its HeartVue 6S Heart Screening System - which obtained CE Mark Approval in Europe almost two years ago - have been …
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