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Medical ventilators for use in ICU
At this year’s MEDICA numerous medical ventilators for use in intensive care units were showcased. The European Hospital team visited Maquet and Siare to have a look at their Read more …
Acuson P10 – the world’s smallest ultrasound device
The Acuson P10 is a new portable ultrasound device, developed and manufactured by Siemens Medical Solutions. The new system in the size of a Blackberry embodies Point of Care Read more …
Dräger’s special anniversary year 2007
Dräger looks up to 100 years of innovation in ventilation technology worldwide. In 1907 Johann Heinrich Dräger invented the Pulmotor as the first short-term respirator Read more …
World’s smallest lung function testing system meets latest ATS/ ERS spirometry standards
SpiroStar is the smallest lung function testing system in the world, reports its Finnish manufacturer Medikro Oy. Weighing just 22 grams, this also became one of the first to Read more …
Anaesthesiology
Dräger’s Acute Care System is reported to be the first to offer a totally new approach to managing and delivering care across the entire acute care process - from emergency Read more …
The IMEC transport system
For the past 12 months the intensive care unit (ICU) at Nuremberg Hospital North, Germany, has been testing the IMEC transport system.
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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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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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Spanish ICU adopts IT
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Medicine and Dermatology Institute
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Teamwork and the Future of Intensive Care Medicine
The 26th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels: A resumee.
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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 typology of conflicts in the ICU
Uncdertainty in prognoses causes symptoms of anxiety and depresiion in family members.
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