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More flexible vital signs monitoring
Maquet’s new Cantellus system is a flexible, highly mobile patient-monitoring system designed to provide full control over the patient’s vital signs anywhere in a hospital and Read more …
Telemonitoring remote patients
Telemonitoring can improve survival and increase quality of life in patients with chronically diseases.
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Oscillation system moves mucus
The Vest Airway Clearance System (which is technique independent and treats all lobes of the lungs simultaneously) helps to mobilise pulmonary secretion via high-frequency chest Read more …
Spanish ICU adopts IT
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Medicine and Dermatology Institute
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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 26th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)
It is the largest meeting of its kind with 5,000 participants.
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The typology of conflicts in the ICU
Uncdertainty in prognoses causes symptoms of anxiety and depresiion in family members.
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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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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 …
High-tech air rescue
Germany - The Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor (USCOM), a portable system that enables beat-to-beat cardiac output assessment at medical emergency locations, has been tested for Read more …
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 silver anniversary of the ISICEM
The 25th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, to be held at the Congress Centre in Brussels, will see us celebrate our Silver Anniversary, when we Read more …
GE launches a new monitoring technique
Working in tandem, two new technologies – SpiroDynamics and FRC INview – measure pressure and volume directly from a patient’s lung.
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OPINION
Across Europe there are different answers to the question of who should manage intensive care. In Germany the issue is linked to a discussion on which medical field could claim Read more …
Laughing gas likely cause of babies’ deformities
Inhalation of anaesthetic laughing gas was blamed for the deformation of six babies born in the Leyenburg Hospital, The Hague.
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Continuous renal replacement therapy
The Prismaflex monitor, produced by Gambro Healthcare provides extra therapy options and features for continuous renal replacement therapy.
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Fatal blood clots claim 500,000 EU lives annually
Experts call for screening of surgical and medical patients, and thromboprophylaxis for those at risk.
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Preventing hypothermia
A new, compact, fully portable Patient Warming System, is ‘..the most efficient, non-invasive method of temperature control currently available’
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Tissue oxygenation
Continous, non-invasive tissue oxygenation and monitoring during resusciation.
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Products span respiratory care
Respironics develops and manufactures innovative sleep and respiratory products and programmes, which it distributes internationally: Read more …
1st portable heart-lung machine
Lifebridge is the first portable heart-lung machine which promises a great success for the clinlical use.
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