Nutrition and health
According to figures released in 2006 by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), around 14 million children, aged 7-11 years, are overweight - and three million of these are obese.
What wounds tell us
Every day, patients are admitted to surgeries, hospitals and outpatient clinics with chronic wounds. Careful inspection gives a wound therapist clues to the appropriate primary care required even before further diagnostic procedures are carried out. So what do the clinical signs and symptoms tell us? Report: Heidi Heinold
Prostate cancer
The Martini Clinic, a private clinic located at the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital (UKE), specialises exclusively in the diagnosis and therapy of one medical condition: prostate cancer.
GE/DGAI prize for research
GE Healthcare and Germany's DGAI (the country's society for anaesthesiology and intensive care) are offering their first clinical sciences research prize, worth 60,000 euros. To be funded by GE for the next three years, the award aims to promote comprehension of clinical practice in anaesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine and pain therapy, via intensive clinical research.
Guess the best
Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), particularly when performed immediately by those witnessing a cardiac or respiratory arrest, definitively saves lives - especially in witnessed cases of ventricular fibrillation (VF) and childhood drowning events. Nevertheless, the frequency of bystander CPR still remains mostly low. In turn, survival chances for potentially salvageable patients remain…
The Von Bergh Global Medical Consulting group
Martin von Bergh MD PhD MBA, founder and CEO of Global Medical Consulting, is a practicing medical doctor, emergency physician and disaster manager, with an MBA in International Hospital Management.
Out-of-hospital digital documentation
Vital patient-related data must be documented by emergency medical services, disaster relief units and emergency physicians, in out-of-hospital settings, and currently most of this is done entered manually on paper.
Multi-task ventilator testers
TSI's battery-operated Certifier FA and Certifier FA Plus flow analysers.
Blood gas analysers and monitors
In 2006 blood gas analysers and monitors earned manufacturers revenues of around US$360.5 million, and revenues could reach US$470 million in 2013, according to a new market report from Frost & Sullivan (F&S).
THE 27th ISICEM
'Over 230 established and emerging international leaders in intensive care and emergency medicine will provide participants with a state-of-the art review of the most recent advances in diagnosis, monitoring, and management of critically ill patients,' Jean-Louis Vincent, Head of the Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, promises the expected 5,000…
Bitter pill for pharmacists
Many French pharmacists are falling on hard times after a year of falling revenues. Those most affected are in rural or semi-rural areas, where there is a growing shortage of doctors willing to set up practice or where resident GPs are leaving for the more populous towns.
EU- member states ensure growth of German Medical Devices Industry
In 2006, the German Medical Devices Industry grew by 8,7 % to 16 Euro billion. Major force behind this growth was export, which grew by 12,8 %, while the main export countries were EU member states, followed by North America. Domestic growth was disappointing.
EU project is financing the electronic nurse
Good news for overworked hospital staff: Maybe in just a few years they will be supported by little robots that could clean up the sickrooms, look for the doctor or show visitors the right way. A new EU project led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO should make this scenario possible.
Libyan HIV Infection case becomes EU wide affair
At second instance a Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses to death. The healthcare workers are accused of allegedly infecting more than 400 children in Libya with HIV through contaminated blood products. Now Bulgaria will bring charges against 11 Libyan police officers for torturing the nurses into confessing that crime, that they allegedly did not commit.
Sponsored • All in one
Anaesthesia combines with monitoring and data management
Datex-Ohmeda's S/5 ADU Carestation combines an anaesthesia machine's electronically controlled gas delivery and agent vaporisation with patient monitoring and information management.
Gambling treatment as a service of the NHS
Gambling should be a recognized addiction that requires treatment on the NHS, so the demand of the BMA (British Medical Association) published in its hard-hitting report "Gambling addiction and its treatment within the NHS".
New surgical procedure for effective thermofusion and dissection of vessels
The Californian company SurgRx and ERBE Elektromedizin of Tubingen, Germany, have negotiated an international distribution agreement for the EnSealTM PTC tissue sealing and hemostasis system.
Back to bed safely
Patients can be unpredictable and, if they leave their beds, some might come to harm if their movements go unnoticed. WeSpot SecNurse, a new monitoring sysem produced by the Dutch firm Secumatic, transmits an alarm to an existing nurse call system when its sensor detects a patient's departure from bed.
The first portable endoscopy device
The épug portable endoscopy device was demonstrated at this year's MEDICA fair in Germany. Currently, this is the only battery operated, digital integrated camera, monitor and digital capture device that has been designed to give surgeons more flexibility to work in various departments.
Leica MDRS3 for microsurgery videos and stills
The compact, medically tested Leica Medical Digital Recording System MDRS3 from Leica Microsystems allows video and uncompressed still images recording from multiple cameras without interruption of the video recording.
Jeep and quad to the rescue
Islanders on Usedom, in Germany's Baltic Sea, will be the first to see two unique rescue vehicles in action.
Sales up for painless wound closure devices
A dramatic change in the market for painless wound closure devices is predicted during the next five years due to advances in medical and surgical technologies.
News • Anaesthesiology
Enhancing acute patient care
Dräger's Acute Care System is reported to be the first to offer a totally new approach to managing and delivering care across the entire acute care process - from emergency care to operating theatre, to critical care and neonatal care.
Mechanical heart pumps could beat transplants
Almost one in three people over 55 will develop congestive heart failure, research has revealed. The Rotterdam Study, a prospective population-based study of cardiovascular and other diseases in the elderly, monitored 7,983 inhabitants of Ommoord, a Rotterdam suburb (source: Eur Heart J 2004: 25, 1614-19).