A percutaneous dilation tracheostomy kit
Tracoe experc kit, designed for percutaneous dilation tracheostomy, is based on the established Ciaglia technique with single step dilation.
Ventilation
Article • Vest airway clearance system
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 wall oscillation.
Article • Company Profile
In the spotlight: Schiller AG
Alfred E Schiller, founder and managing director of Schiller AG, based in Baar, Switzerland, describes the rise of his company and its place in today’s highly competitive intensive care market. Alfred Schiller founded Schiller AG in 1971 and three years later introduced his first product – a pocket-sized electrocardioscope, which has been built on successively over the years. The…
The 26th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)
It is the largest meeting of its kind with 5,000 participants.
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 will reflect on 25 years of meetings that have encouraged the presentation, discussion, and debate of intensive care medicine, and when we also look forward to what the next 25 years may bring.
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 treatment may be taken up by attempts to discontinue it: a process termed weaning.
Sleep apnoea study may alter stroke management
Spain - New research suggests that sleep apnoea is a new risk factor for death from stroke.
Relieving breathlessness in COPD
Breathlessness, the most common symptom in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), greatly reduces their ability to participate in day-to-day activities.
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) 14th Annual Congress
"Céad Mile Fáilte!" said ERS President Walter McNicholas, to greet those about to attend this the 14th Annual Congress of the ERS, (Glasgow, Scotland, 4-8 September 2004).
Clinical quality ventilator for home use
Camena, an innovative ventilator that provides clinical-quality ventilation for patients at home, will be launched, at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) annual meeting (4-8 September 2004, Glasgow, UK), by Dräger Medical AG & Co KGaA, of Lübeck, Germany.
Hotspots cool down but stay alert!
The known global death toll due to the new virus (as of 1 July) was 811. Total number of cases 8447.
