ICU Management & Practice Editorial Board Member
ICU / Critical Care & Emergency Medicine
Flat structure in the ICU
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Positions
Department of Intensive Care KSK Haukeland University Hospital
Bergen, Norway
Key areas of interest and research
Intensive Care
Quality
Medical Education
Outcomes
Featured in HealthManagement.org
2022
16
Mar
This overview explores the publications concerning the very old ICU patients since 2011 and with a focus on publications from the VIP network on elderly COVID-19 patients. Introduction In 2017, an international group of intensivists...
2021
24
Aug
Among 1,841 very old ICU patients with respiratory failure, although women had higher age and frailty, males had higher 30-day mortality assessed one month after ICU admission. Particularly in light of the ongoing pandemic, male patients appear to...
2020
14
Sep
An overview of the VIP project that studies a subgroup of patients ≥ 80 years, the oldest old, since both ICU mortality and morbidity are increased with advanced age. D uring the last 10 years, we have observed an increased...
2018
16
Oct
Describes the epidemiology and outcomes for very old patients as known in 2018, along with a short introduction to the most relevant “geriatric syndromes” important also for intensivists, and discusses where we should increase our body of knowledge...
2016
30
Nov
The last two decades have seen an accelerated interest in
quality management in healthcare in general, and also in intensive care specifically.
Often safety has been the main issue, but increasingly a more general approach
to quality has emerged, in...
2016
11
Mar
The significance of research or researchers is frequently
discussed and debated, so also in the medical research field. Why do we
publish? This straightforward question is often difficult to answer, at least
in a simple way. As a starter we can list...
2015
29
Sep
Benchmarking —comparing your own results with those of others—has the potential to reveal areas in which your unit could improve. However, there are pitfalls you should be aware of. When he was the CEO of Xerox
Corporation, David T. Kearns stated,...
2014
14
Oct
Professor Hans Flaatten has been Professor of Intensive Care
Medicine at the University of Bergen since 2004, and he is a valued
member of the Editorial Board of ICU Management. We asked him our 7
questions: 1. What are your key areas of interest and...
2013
15
Aug
Education and training have increased its importance the last decades. Twelve years ago European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM) published a paper concerning training in intensive care (Int Care Med 1996) and the society efforts to improve training...
2013
15
Aug
Several studies the last decade have revealed that errors and
adverse events are common in the ICU. Errors have become the norm rather than
the exception in most ICUs—for physicians as well as nurses. Efforts have been
made to prevent errors...
2013
15
Aug
Treatment of the critically ill is usually only infrequently debated
in public in Norway. However, in the last two years there have been a few ICU
cases that have generated a large amount of public interest in Norway. In these
cases, the issue usually...
2013
15
Aug
Researcher and head of intensive care at Haukeland University
Hospital, Professor Hans Flaatten believes that two goals essential to quality
intensive care are good intra- and inter-team cooperation and respect, and
constantly implementing the latest...
2012
05
Feb
For this edition of ICU Management, we asked four influential leaders in critical care medicine, "What was the most important or interesting development in intensive care in 2011?" with the aim of pinpointing the hot topics in critical care and emergency...
2011
21
Oct
Professor Flaatten explains how design can affect patient
outcome, and reports data collected from a temporary ICU set-up during
reconstruction of his ICU at Haukeland University.
Does design matter? Intuitively most intensivists would probably
answer...
Intensive Care, Quality, Medical Education, Outcomes
Prof. Hans Kristian Flaatten, ICU Management & Practice Editorial Board Member at HealthManagement, Key areas of interest and research is Intensive Care, Quality, Medical Education, Outcomes
