Search Tag: emergency medicine
2016 20 Dec
In 2014, more than 1.1 million emergency care cases in Abu Dhabi alone Projected demand for major trauma in Abu Dhabi is double that of major trauma rates in the UK and Australia Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) to collaborate with Arab Health Congress to support Emergency Medicine physicians in developing their skills and...Read more
2016 01 Nov
Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is playing an increasing role in emergency medicine, providing the tools to help physicians rapidly and efficiently assess a wide range of patients. Dr Alberto Ángel Oviedo García, an emergency medicine specialist at the Hospital de Valme in Seville, has been instrumental in developing the use of POC ultrasound in Andalusia,...Read more
2016 27 Sep
Managing patients with accidental hypothermia with and without cardiac arrest is covered in a recently published state-of-the-art review, endorsed by the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine. Extracorporeal life support is the “treatment of choice” in patients with unstable circulation or cardiac arrest. Peter Paal and colleagues...Read more
2017 18 May
Be PREMpared! This second PREM congress will aim to re-invent itself, having learned from the first edition and your input, growing in terms of participants but also in terms of the quality of what we present to you. This congress is organised by the departments of Pediatrics, Intensive Care, Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine of the University...Read more
2017 03 Jun
Euroanaesthesia is Europe’s largest annual event showcasing the latest and the most relevant knowledge with medical experts active in the field of anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care, emergency medicine and pain treatment. This international event gathers thousands of delegates and exhibitors from over 80 countries. Upwards of 6000...Read more
2016 26 May
ISCCM Pune Branch and The Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels decided to come together to conduct this symposium, consisting of a select set of presentations made at the preceding ISICEM, Brussels, in Pune, India. Eminent faculty who will have participated in ISICEM at Brussels in March 2016 have been invited...Read more
2016 19 May
Fire-Service Based EMS Awards Presented at 28 th Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner The Congressional Fire Services Institute (CFSI) and Masimo honored two fire departments for best practices and innovative solutions in the delivery of emergency medical services with the Excellence in Fire Service-Based EMS Award. The award...Read more
2016 07 Sep
World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS) is global organisation based in Milano, uniting key world experts and researchers in the field. It is probably single most important, most influential and crucial world organization in the field, that has helped bring about this revolution of point-of-care ultrasound! It gives us...Read more
2016 01 Oct
EuSEM holds an annual congress, usually in the autumn, in different European countries. The congress is organised by EuSEM and the national emergency medicine society of the country in which it is held and is referred to as ‘European Congress on Emergency Medicine’ (ECEM). In accordance with the goals of EuSEM, the objective of these congresses is...Read more
2016 16 Jun
The “Neurosciences in Intensive Care International Symposium” (NICIS) intends to promote Neuroscience as a central paradigm for research in the realm of critical care medicine. The current NICIS held on June the 16th-17th 2016 is titled “Neuro-inflammation in Critical illness: From brain signaling to brain insult” . The NICIS 2016 builds on success...Read more
2016 12 Feb
FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. , specialists in developing cutting-edge ultrasound solutions and providing world-leading education to enable point-of-care visualization access, announced CE mark and 510(k) clearance for its new portable ultrasound system, the SonoSite Edge II. Designed with emergency medicine and critical care applications in mind, the Edge...Read more
2015 31 Dec
Switzerland is a country of 8.2 million inhabitants, who mostly live outside one of the six major cities: Zurich (384,786 inhabitants), Geneva (191,557), Basel (174,491), Lausanne (132,626), Berne (128,848) and Winterthur (105,676) (Bundesamt für Statistik 2015). Switzerland is composed of 26 cantons that enjoy a great deal of independence from the federation....Read more
2015 31 Dec
What to Expect in Civilian vs. Military Contexts Civilian blast injuries are not rare, but most are not due to military explosives, meaning extrapolation from military texts is often inappropriate. In civilian mass casualty events, emergency departments will see large patient numbers, but few require surgery or intensive care. Survivors of small...Read more
2015 31 Dec
Providing seamless emergency care is the ideal for those of us who work in emergency medicine and intensive care. In the past, intensive care units were a closed part of the hospital, and admission was strictly controlled. This idea is obsolete now. It is heartening that we are providing more integrated care between emergency and intensive care. Intensivists...Read more
2015 15 Dec
Mock codes can be useful exercises to identify inadequacies in systems, standards of care, and teamwork that could be remediated in order to optimise patient care and safety, according to a report published in the Journal of Radiology Nursing . Using in situ mock codes can continue to provide practice for responders — both noncode team and code team...Read more
2016 13 Jan
Every January, the Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine and the EMCrit Podcast host > 500 residents and faculty from the Greater NY area for a conference on Resuscitation & Critical Care. On January 13, 2016, this year's conference features short, engaging TED-style talks along with panel experts discussing cutting-edge...Read more
2015 13 Oct
Critical care does not only happen in the ICU, but how can emergency medicine and intensive care medicine work optimally together? Several models were presented at the 2015 European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) congress in Berlin 3-7 October. Solution 1: Shock Lab Intensive care and emergency medicine do have a symbiotic relationship,...Read more