Departments: Intensive Care
01/28/2010
Your map of anaesthesia
Dräger SmartPilot View is a software, which, for the first time, provides a two-dimensional representation of the current and the forecasted course of anaesthesia. Similar to a …
01/20/2010
Plane with full hospital landing in Port-au-Prince
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order …
12/01/2009
Santa Claus: He’s bad for your health!
Whilst millions of people celebrate Christmas in quiet ways, many millions see this as a time for parties and excessive indulgences in eating, drinking alcohol and spending. …
11/19/2009
Seamless patient monitoring throughout the hospital
Draeger Medical showcases its new component for the Infinity Acute Care System, the M540, at this years Medica. The system makes it possible to seamlessly monitor and record vital …
11/19/2009
Patient monitoring as part of the HIS
This October GE Healthcare launched its new Carescape Monitor B 850 at the 22nd Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Resulting from the expertise …
11/19/2009
Large capacity intensive care ambulances
In March 2008 over 200 cars were involved in a mass traffic accident caused by fog between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Six passengers were killed; hundreds were injured. Similar road …
11/18/2009
The Isolette 8000
The new Isolette 8000 is the latest model in Dräger’s respected Isolette series of infant incubators that introduced innovations such as the patented Dual Air Curtain, known …
11/18/2009
IWI: An integrative weaning index of discontinuation from mechanical ventilation
"Indexes predicting weaning outcome are frequently inaccurate," said Sérgio N Nemer RRT PhD of the Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Clínicas de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, …
11/18/2009
Comprehensive NIV guidance
One of the most comprehensive articles on non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been published this September. Specialists can access this online …
11/18/2009
Vexing questions for anaesthetists
How can postoperative delirium and postoperative cognitive dysfunction be avoided? How is it best to address the problem of epilepsy? How can anaesthetists cope better with a …
11/18/2009
E-learning for SERVO-i with NAVA
NAVA is a new mechanical ventilation method in which the ventilator is controlled directly by the patient's neural breath control, and is incorporated in Maquet´s Servo-i system. …
11/18/2009
A compact and clever anaesthesia unit
ARCUS -- It’s a portable, fully electronic, stand-alone inhalation anaesthesia unit that offers the electronic gas mixer EGAMIX. The wall version is used for induction. Compared …
11/17/2009
The 2009 Bernhard Dräger Award
Dr Vasilios Papaioannou, of the Democritus University of Thrace in Alexandroupoli, Greece, received the €15,000 Bernhard Dräger Award for Advanced Treatment of Acute …
10/07/2009
Conoxia medizinischer Sauerstoff von PanGas
Auf der diesjährigen gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Intensivmedizin (SGI), der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (SGN), …
06/29/2009
Palliativmedizin: Bundestagsbeschluss blendet wichtige Inhalte aus
Mit dem Beschluss des Gesetzes zum Assistenzpflegebedarf, das es Menschen mit Behinderung erlaubt, Hilfen ihres ambulanten Pflegepersonals auch während eines stationären …
06/10/2009
Dräger Award for Intensive Care Medicine 2009
At this year's Euroanaesthesia 2009, in Milan, the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) presented for the third time the Dräger Award for Intensive Care Medicine. The …
05/01/2009
Urine test for kidney disease
Scientists have developed a new test for detecting kidney disease, according to a paper published online in April by Kidney International (www.nature.com/ki/). The technique will …
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 …
03/01/2009
ISICEM 2009
About 5,000 physicians and healthcare workers interested in intensive care and emergency medicine will gather in Brussels for the 29th ISICEM. …
02/12/2009
Perspectives beyond protective ventilation
From 18th till 20th February 2009 the 19th Symposium of Intensive Care will take place in Bremen, Germany. During the symposium a presentation of the latest clinical data in form …
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