• Patients and Families

    Collaboration between critical care doctors, patients and families is essential to managing critically ill patients. Promoting open communication, shared decision-making, and emotional support is essential to ensure a patient-centred approach in critical care settings.   ‏ ‏ Communication plays a crucial role in a critical care setting....

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  • Bringing Back the Forgotten Piece: Family Empowerment in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient

    This article aims to address patient-family-centred care programmes, starting from their origins and discussing new protocols.     Critically ill patients entail a great complexity of care. ICU staff has focused on their care, with family members and surrogates put aside for decades. In recent years, we are witnessing a paradigm shift...

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  • The Internet & Rise of AI in CCM: Opportunities, Threats and the Practitioner-Patient Relationship

    This article explores how pervasive and persuasive the internet is in current critical care practice, offers insights into how healthcare professionals, patients and fami­lies can critically appraise where information comes from and its content producers and discusses the opportunities and threats posed by AI on the physicians/team-patient/family...

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  • Acute Subarachnoid Haemorrhage - An Epidemiological Perspective

    Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) carries a high disease-specific burden. Epide­miological studies have observed a reduction in the incidence of SAH from 1990 to 2019. However, the same trend was not observed for intrahospital mortality. Several studies focusing on the evaluation of SAH management across the world have shown a high heterogeneity in...

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  • Upcoming events/courses/congresses

    NOVEMBER 28-1/12 Critical Care Canada Forum Toronto, Canada https://iii.hm/1nhb 29 – 1/12 DIVI 2023 - German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Hamburg, Germany https://iii.hm/1nhc DECEMBER 6-9 ESEM 2023 - Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine Conference Dubai, UAE https://iii.hm/1nhd...

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  • ICU Management & Practice 2023 Subject Index

    Issues/Pages Volume 23, Issue 1 1-50 https://iii.hm/1jqh Volume 23, Issue 2 49-100 https://iii.hm/1k3i Volume 23, Issue 3 101-138 https://iii.hm/1kzj Volume 23, Issue 4 139-189 https://iii.hm/1mwh Volume 23, Issue 5 190-230 https://iii.hm/1nhu     Subject index   Airway Management...

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  • ICU Management & Practice 2023 Author Index

    Abella-Álvarez AM 175 https://iii.hm/1mwz Alava FM 44 https://iii.hm/1jr4 Alcaraz AR 195  https://iii.hm/1nho Alshamsi I 95 https://iii.hm/1k9x Areny-Balagueró A 6 https://iii.hm/1jqk Arriaga-Morales E 207 https://iii.hm/1nmi Badewien C 42 https://iii.hm/1jr2 Baid H 110 https://iii.hm/1kzr Bajaña I 25 https://iii.hm/1jqq...

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  • Artificial Intelligence in the ICU

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in healthcare, and its application in critical care is no exception. AI technologies can potentially enhance patient care, improve clinical outcomes, and streamline healthcare operations in the ICU.     There are numerous ways in which AI can be effectively utilised in the ICU....

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  • Towards Artificial Intelligence as a Decision Support Tool to Combat AMR in the ICU

    Ongoing research and challenges regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to leverage data and identify complex interactions to address antimicrobial resistance in the ICU.     The possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically, machine learning (ML), are being researched across almost all domains...

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  • Applying International Sepsis Guidelines by Screening High-Risk Hospitalised Patients With PSP

    Hospital and ICU nosocomial sepsis screening for acutely ill and high-risk patients and daily measurement of PSP to diagnose nosocomial sepsis three to five days before the onset of symptoms.     Introduction Sepsis is a major public health threat and is responsible for 11 million deaths per year (Rudd et al. 2020) among 48.9 million cases....

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