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Security alert
Security in hospitals is not easy. Thousands of patients, visitors, members of staff, as well as delivery and removal people, come and go, and with so many strangers inevitably on Read more …
Measuring hospital performance
Measuring hospital performance is a complex and essential activity.
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Intensivists
Not so long ago, in addition to carrying their normal workload the surgeon, anaesthetist, lung specialist and internist worked in the intensive care unit (ICU). Now, however, the Read more …
The ICU: caring for patients’relatives
An intensive care unit (ICU) is a ward staffed by medical support who have been specially trained in the high levels of care required by each pathological state.
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Reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation
The requirement for mechanical ventilatory support is the most common indication for admission to an intensive care unit - and up to 50% of the time that a patient receives such Read more …
Hot topic: The Architecture of Hospitals
Between 13-15 April 2005, at University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands, 100 top scientists will discuss concepts and advances in designs for healthcare institutions Read more …
Nurse-surgeons
Waiting lists, EU limits on working hours, doctor and nursing staff shortages, how could healthcare providers overcome all those hurdles let alone glimpse the winning post ahead? Read more …
HF shower to treat pain and depression
Anja Behringer reports on a high-frequency pain therapy applied at the out-patient clinic for electro-physical medicine and hydrotherapy (Ambulatorium für Read more …
Respected not rejected
The Hartmann European Care Award 2004 has been presented to Dagmar Erdkönig, Petra Makara and Claudia Reicher of Austria.
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Achieving effective teamwork
‘All we need to know was learned in kindergarten,’ say Peter Pronovost MD PhD and Christine Holzmuller BLA.
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Information helps healing
Most patients who receive health information change lifestyle and believe they reap benefits, according to a study carried out in Europe and the USA.
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Funds for adults with hospitalised children
Germany - The Federal Associations of Health Insurance Funds and the German Hospitals Association are now following Germany’s Regulation 1 on the co-admission of child/adolescent Read more …
Virtual visits with neonates
Although parents are allowed in neonate ICU units, family members and friends are barred. To meet this need, Innsbruck Medical University recently launched the project ‘Babywatch’ Read more …
River shifts for a streamlined hospital
Austria - A new hospital is rarely a groundbreaking enterprise for urban planners and engineers. Recently, however, a whole river had to be re-routed to make way for a new medical Read more …
European Investment Bank: financing opportunities for the hospital sector
The safety of breast implants
The European health insurance card
Advancements in Telepathology
Professor Werner Schlake, President of the German professional association of pathologists, described teleconsultation as the most significant application of telepathology.
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What PACS integration will mean to our services
In an interview with EH, Professor Robert Lagalla, head of the department, discussed the current installation of a PACS that will serve the central radiology department, linking Read more …
The Pain-free Hospital – Pilot project successfully completed in five hospitals
The first five out of a total of 25 German hospitals have just been awarded the certification “Qualified Pain Therapy” with the completion of the pilot project “Pain-free Read more …
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