• Precision Medicine

      Precision medicine, also called personalised medicine, involves tailoring medical treatment and interventions to the individual characteristics of each patient. These characteristics may include genetic makeup, molecular profiles, environmental factors, lifestyle choices, and personal preferences. The goal of precision medicine is to optimise...

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  • Affidea's Pioneering Contributions to Radiology: Showcasing Innovation and Quality at ECR 2024

      Affidea's impactful participation at the European Congress of Radiology 2024 highlights its forefront position in enhancing radiological practices and patient care. With 8 insightful clinical presentations, the clinical team demonstrated a strong commitment to quality, safety, and innovation in diagnostic imaging across Europe.   Dr Charles...

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  • KLAS Rankings: Methodology, Criteria and Select Award Winners

      An overview of the 2024 Best in KLAS Awards – Global Software report providing insight on the most effective software solutions in healthcare.   Key Points The Best in KLAS® awards serve as a guide, helping stakeholders easily see the most effective software solutions that elevate the standard of care. The research directly represents...

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  • Bringing Back the Forgotten Piece: Family Empowerment in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient

    This article aims to address patient-family-centred care programmes, starting from their origins and discussing new protocols.     Critically ill patients entail a great complexity of care. ICU staff has focused on their care, with family members and surrogates put aside for decades. In recent years, we are witnessing a paradigm shift...

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  • Administering Care to Critically Ill Patients with FAST HUGS IN BED PLEASE - Revisited Mnemonic

    In the ICU, providing better care with less is the holy grail. This mnemonic tries to resume a list of the key interventions for human, evidence-based and patient-centred care.     Background In 2005, Prof Jean-Louis Vincent introduced the mnemonic "FAST HUG," advocating for a comprehensive approach to patient care encompassing seven...

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  • Long-Term Home Ventilation in Children: Facing the Challenge

    Discharging ventilated children home is a difficult challenge in which the training of families is essential. We present our hospital's transition programme for ventilated children going home, which is based on a family-centred model.     Introduction The progressive improvement of neonatal intensive care (NICU) and paediatric intensive...

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  • Treating the Whole Human In Intensive Care – Patient-Centred Outcomes in Sepsis, Surgery and Trauma

    Intensive care impacts more than the patient, with ripple effects for families, employers and wider societies. Patient-centred outcomes reiterate the need for clinical therapies targeting the biological circuitry of the big-hitting syndromes like ARDS, sepsis, delirium, renal failure and recognising they persist beyond the veil of discharge....

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  • Cardiovascular Management in Septic Shock: Optimising Vascular and Cardiac Function

    An overview of vasopressor management, current evidence on its use, when to initiate vasopressor therapy for best possible patient outcome and a discussion regarding the use of landiolol in septic patients with persistent tachycardia.    Optimising Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock   Patients with septic shock, and especially...

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  • Acute Subarachnoid Haemorrhage - An Epidemiological Perspective

    Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) carries a high disease-specific burden. Epide­miological studies have observed a reduction in the incidence of SAH from 1990 to 2019. However, the same trend was not observed for intrahospital mortality. Several studies focusing on the evaluation of SAH management across the world have shown a high heterogeneity in...

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  • ICU Management & Practice 2023 Author Index

    Abella-Álvarez AM 175 https://iii.hm/1mwz Alava FM 44 https://iii.hm/1jr4 Alcaraz AR 195  https://iii.hm/1nho Alshamsi I 95 https://iii.hm/1k9x Areny-Balagueró A 6 https://iii.hm/1jqk Arriaga-Morales E 207 https://iii.hm/1nmi Badewien C 42 https://iii.hm/1jr2 Baid H 110 https://iii.hm/1kzr Bajaña I 25 https://iii.hm/1jqq...

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