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Peterborough-city-hospital-one-for-all-standardising-medical-equipment
2019 26 Jul
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is widely used in hospitals across the country. However, as these systems are often shared between departments, and consultants may work at more than one hospital within a trust, there is a clear advantage to choosing instruments from a single supplier wherever possible. Jim McWilliams, Associate Director for Technical...Read more
A-solid-future-for-point-of-care-ultrasound-in-intensive-care
2019 19 Jul
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an established tool for the rapid assessment and diagnosis of patients across a variety of medical disciplines, not least in the high-octane environment of intensive care medicine. Dr. Timm Steuber, senior consultant and head of the ICU at Evangelisches Krankenhaus Unna, Germany, discusses his day-to-day...Read more
Anaesthesia-at-the-foot-of-kilimanjaro
2019 19 Jul
The Radboud university medical centre (UMC) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has worked in collaboration with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania for a number of years, offering support and education for its staff to improve overall healthcare in the area. As part of this partnership, clinicians from the department of anaesthesia...Read more
Perioperative-management-of-chronic-cannabis-users
2019 26 Jun
Marijuana is one of the most commonly used recreational drug today. Cannabis can have systemic reactions that could potentially affect perioperative outcomes. In this review, the authors outline the most important pharmacological aspects and pathophysiological effects that need to be considered during the perioperative management of chronic...Read more
10th-annual-winter-symposium-in-intensive-care-anaesthesia-and-emergency-medicine
2020 12 Jan
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Join-icu-management-practice-at-ea19
2019 28 May
Euroanaesthesia 2019 begins this 1-3 June in Vienna, Austria, and the ICU Management & Practice team will be there. Euroanaesthesia is Europe's largest annual event showcasing the latest and the most relevant knowledge in the field of anaesthesia. The scientific programme this year, developed by the Scientific Committee under the chairmanship...Read more
Espa-2019-11th-european-congress-for-paediatric-anaesthesiology
2019 19 Sep
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European-society-of-regional-anaesthesia-esra-congress-2019
2019 11 Sep
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Sedation-practices-in-the-icu
2019 24 Jan
Report of a symposium presented at LIVES 2018: 31st congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Paris, France Chairs: Michael Sander, Germany & Jean-Daniel Chiche, France Knowledge and practice in sedation and analgesia in the ICU have advanced greatly in recent years. The risks of delirium and of over-sedation...Read more
30o-smart-2019-anaesthesia-resuscitation-intensive-care-2019
2019 08 May
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Improving-access-to-safe-anaesthesia
2018 16 Oct
Interview with Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, President, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, MD, DPH is Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Bærum Hospital, Norway. She is President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, and...Read more
Simulate-or-not-to-simulate
2018 16 Mar
Evolution in medicine and the anaesthesia context. A brief discussion about the importance and the state of the art of simulation in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. Training in simulation plays a key role in complex systems such as aviation and the nuclear industry, to investigate predictable errors that lead to adverse outcomes....Read more
Eye-protection-in-anaesthesia-and-intensive-care-new-guidelines-1
2017 13 Dec
New guidelines on prevention of eye injuries during anaesthesia and intensive care have been developed by the French Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR), together with the French Ophthalmology Society and the French-speaking Intensive Care Society. The document, published in the journal Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine...Read more
Bringing-new-technologies-to-anaesthesia-are-we-there-yet
2017 22 Nov
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair for Perioperative Medicine at UCLA. He is the Technology, Computing, and Simulation section editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia. His research interests focus on new technologies applied to anaesthesia and the intensive care unit. We live in a wireless world as consumers,...Read more
The-8th-annual-winter-symposium-in-intensive-care-anaesthesia-emergency-medicine
2018 07 Jan
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