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Women, doctors and heart disease

'Positive action is needed to more and more raise awareness of gender differences and cardiac disease - even among cardiologists.'

CVD and women

New initiative aims at clarification and education.

Controversy: the nurse-surgeon

Nurse-surgeon training in the UK is lively discussed for other European countries doing the same to address their lack of qualified surgeons.

First European surgical studio goes live

The operating `theatre´ exists no longer - at least in St Olavs Hospital (Trondheim University Hospital, Norway) where Europe's first operating studio officially opened this May. Now medical students no longer crane their necks to study surgical procedures. Thanks to this exciting new audio-visual concept they can see more, hear more and learn more.

40th anniversary

As the German Society of Neuroradiology 40th annual meeting approached (Venue: Dresden. 31 August - 3 September), Professors Martin Schumacher (Freiburg), President of the German Society of Neuroradiology (GSN) and Rüdiger von Kummer (Dresden), the meeting's President, examine the history and potential in this medical field

The artificial patient

Women and heart disease

We asked Professor Badiale about progress in the understanding of women and heart disease.

Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Professor Paul Pepe and Dr Jane Wigginton discuss current research and concepts that will affect the future of basic CPR.

IGS

In our last issue we featured the Future Operating Room Project developed at St Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Norway, a collaboration between the hospital and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. There, highly promising research on navigation is being carried out in co-peration with the research foundation Sintef Health Research. Professor of Surgery Hans O…

Fatal blood clots claim 500,000 EU lives annually

Experts call for screening of surgical and medical patients, and thromboprophylaxis for those at risk.

Healthcare in Spain

General information concerning the country's healthcare is held at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).

Computed tomography and acute stroke

´CT has been revolutionizing the understanding and treatment of stroke´ - that is the summary of Dr. Dzialowski.

Perinatal medicine

Interview with Prof. Klaus Vetter MD, director of the Obestetrics Clinic at the Perinatal Centre, Vivantes Hospital Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.

The Netherlands and Belgium

Healthcare authorities have advised university hospitals to slowdown surgical training, because, after years of study, qualified Dutch surgeons can find no employment.

Resistance to silver-containing wound dressings

Is a sharp weapon being blunted? Article by Heidi Heinhold.

EU regulation aims to improve research on medicines for children

The use of unlicensed and off-label medicines for children is widespread, yet over 50% of all pharmaceutical products have no scientific data for young people. With its Regulation on Medicinal Products for Paediatric Use the EU aims to promote the development of more medicines specifically for children.

Teamwork and the future of intensive care medicine

The recent 26th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - the largest annual meeting of its kind - attracted around 5,000 participants, who travelled to Brussels from over 80 countries.

Smiths Medical wins US$3.4 million contract

USA - The 898-bed Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston - Harvard Medical School's biggest teaching hospital - has awarded a $3.4 million contract for 1,365 syringe pumps to Smiths Medical

Secondary healing wounds

An application report by assistant plastic surgeon Thomas Aigner, and F Weyer, of the Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, at St. Polten Hospital, Austria

The Wound Infection Institute

Wound Infection Institute is dedicated to improving infection control.

Certified Wound Management

“The certification offered by the academy and the Healthcare Academy of Styria/Academy of the Austrian Care Association” is based on paragraphs 63 and 64 of the Austrian Healthcare Act, under which healthcare professionals are required to expand the knowledge they acquired during training at least every five years, through seminars that cover a minimum of 40 hours (para. 63 Abs. (1) S. 2.…

ILED - the LED operating lamp

Based on semiconductor connections that convert the current directly into light, LEDs have numerous technical advantages over conventional halogen and gas discharge lamps, the most important being low heat emissions, adjustable light features and an almost indefinite life-cycle.