Disaster!
In August last year, Hurricane Katrina smashed into the USA's Gulf Coast. Within 36 hours a swathe of Louisiana had become a disaster zone.
More flexible vital signs monitoring
Maquet's new Cantellus system is a flexible, highly mobile patient-monitoring system designed to provide full control over the patient's vital signs anywhere in a hospital and during patient transportation.
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.
Reimbursement for bowel endoscopy
Czech Republic -.The Ministry of Health has issued a reimbursement policy for PillCam SB capsule endoscopy, produced by Given Imaging Ltd.
Cardiovascular disease
Countries in the European Union spent €169 billion in 2003 on cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to research from a team at the Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, England, just published on-line by the European Heart Journal.
FDA strengthens device monitoring
Following a 12-month examination of the way medical devices are monitored for safety after approval, the USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new programme to `transform and strengthen´ current monitoring of new technology as well as existing products.
Mobile patient positioning table with quick-change battery
The bucky table is an inexpensive tool for X-Ray departments. However, due to the increasing use of movable stands, especially combined with digital imaging receptors, further requirements for a patient positioning table arise.
Mammography
Immobilisation of the female breast for diagnostic examination and biopsy is one of the prime foci of the Noras Company.
The vendor, system administrator and manager in a new fully digital environment
A report about the installation of a new HIS in combinations with the setting up of a new Economic Software platform at Semmelweis University.
Telemonitoring remote patients
Telemonitoring can improve survival and increase quality of life in patients with chronically diseases.
Your invitation to Neuro-week
The Working Party for Clinical Neuroscience, set up two years ago, ...
Sound philosophy leads to quality led lighting
Formerly integrated with the electronics/medical division of ...
Catastrophic care - When hospitals are overwhelmed
Paul E Pepe MD MPH FACEP FCCM, Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and Chair, Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre and the Parkland Health and Hospital System (TSMC&PHHS), Dallas.
Spanish ICU adopts IT
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Medicine and Dermatology Institute
Intensivists
Not so long ago, in addition to carrying their normal workload the surgeon, anaesthetist, lung specialist and internist worked in the intensive care unit (ICU). Now, however, the 'intensivist' has arrived - 'A real specialist'
The typology of conflicts in the ICU
Uncdertainty in prognoses causes symptoms of anxiety and depresiion in family members.
High-tech air rescue
Germany - The Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor (USCOM), a portable system that enables beat-to-beat cardiac output assessment at medical emergency locations, has been tested for use during helicopter patient transportations, and worked effectively, without suffering from or causing interference to helicopter electronics.
Respected not rejected
The Hartmann European Care Award 2004 has been presented to Dagmar Erdkönig, Petra Makara and Claudia Reicher of Austria.
Mix & match clothing brightens working hours
A colourful collection of clinical clothing, with many motifs and designs inspired by nature, is now available throughout Europe.
Biotechnology for regenerative surgery
Tissue engineering caused a stir at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Germany Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Breast cancer
Five years of therapy with the drug tamoxifen has become the norm for postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer. However, this has several adverse side effects, and studies have continued to compare the effects of other drug therapies with tamoxifen.
Achieving effective teamwork
“All we need to know was learned in kindergarten”, say Peter Pronovost MD PhD and Christine Holzmuller BLA.
Information helps healing
Most patients who receive health information change lifestyle and believe they reap benefits, according to a study carried out in Europe and the USA.
Don't just go there!
Many medical organisations have warned that no one who wishes to help in the relief work in tsunami-hit regions should travel there individually, i.e. without being officially affiliated with an already involved organisation.
The Tsunami International Survey on Emotional Impact
The Netherlands - Immediately after the tsunami devastated countries around Asia, three trauma researchers at the Department Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands, as well as from the Department Military Psychiatry, Central Military Hospital in Utrecht, became involved in the care for a group of wounded Dutch patients who had been in Phuket.
