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- 39th Critical Care Congress
Miami Beach Convention Center
Saturday, January 9 at 7:00am - Post-Congress Conference
Key West, Florida, USA
Wednesday, January 13 at 7:00am
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FCCS in KenyaCreated about a week ago
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How Do You Mend A Broken Heart? Update In Heart Failure
Recent advances in the management in heart failure and the devices being used to improve heart function. The remainder of this video plus many other educational videos are available at http://www.LearnICU.org
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Did you know that you can access all SCCM clinical and administrative guidelines free online at LearnICU? The Society's background paper on "Pay for Performance" is also located on this page.
Source: www.learnicu.org
Guidelines for the provision and assessment of nutrition supporttherapy in the adult critically ill patient: Society of Critical CareMedicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral NutritionCrit Care Med 2009 Vol. 37, No. 5
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U.S. Patients More Likely to Spend Their Last Days in the ICU
Dying hospital patients in the United States are nearly five times more likely to spend their last days in the intensive care unit (ICU) than patients in England. In addition, U.S. patients older than age 85 are eight times more likely to be in the ICU when t...hey die. This according to a study pub...
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Dying hospital patients in the United States are nearly five times more likely to spend their last days in the intensive care unit (ICU) than patients in England. In addition, U.S. patients older than age 85 are eight times more likely to be in the ICU when t...hey die. This according to a study pub...
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Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
On behalf of the SCCM,CEO/EVP David J. Martin accepts the Associations Make a Better World Award which recognizes outstanding association programs
that make a significant contribution to societies and economies
worldwide. SCCM received the award for the Fundamental Critical Care Support Courses held in developing areas of the world.
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Recombinant Factor VIIa Therapy In Acute Hemorrhage: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most
devastating form of stroke with a high morbidity and mortality. Initial
hematoma volume and subsequent growth in are predictors of poor outcome. Therapies aimed at
preventing hematoma enlargement can lead to a better outcome in ICH. Watch this free SCCM presentation to learn more.
Source: www.learnicu.org
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most devastating form of stroke with a high morbidity and mortality. Initial hematoma volume and subsequent growth in its size are important predictors of a poor outcome in ICH. ...
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) SCCM members Marie Baldisseri, Mary J. Reed and Charles Durbin were among those to serve as faculty for an FCCS course held in Kenya as part of the All Africa Anaesthesia Congress. SCCM donated the license and textbooks and certified several FCCS instructors.
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Need a little uplift in the unit? The mere act of smiling is often enough to lift your mood; conversely, the act of frowning can lower it. http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) In preparation for the upcoming conference call on Advanced Management Strategies for H1N1 on 11/4, watch the free adult or peds Controversies In Mechanical Ventilation courses available from SCCM.
Source: www.learnicu.org
GUIDELINESEvidence-based guidelines for weaning and discontinuing ventilatory supportChest 2001;120:375S-395SGuidelines for standards of care for patients with acute respiratory failure on mechanical ventilatory ...
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Former SCCM president Charles G. Durbin in Nairobi, Kenya, at the All Africa Anesthesia Congress, pictured with Dr. David Misango, an intensivist from Kenyatta National Hospital and chairman of the meeting's critical care committee.
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) The first SCCM Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We trained 104 healthcare workers and certified 11 instructors.
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Use the case report form on the SCCM Web site for your H1N1 cases, and access other H1N1 resources on the Disaster Resources page. Coming soon, an online program to train non-ICU providers in caring for severe H1N1 patients.
Source: www.sccm.org
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
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Consider New Sources for Resident Stress, Fatigue
A New York Times column brings added perspective to a study published in the September issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, which showed that, among internal medicine residents, higher levels of fatigue and distress are independently associated with self-perceived medical err...
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A New York Times column brings added perspective to a study published in the September issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, which showed that, among internal medicine residents, higher levels of fatigue and distress are independently associated with self-perceived medical err...
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Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) NEJM posted two studies online this morning, both addressing H1N1 influenza in the critical care setting. The full text for each is available free at http://content.nejm.org http://content.nejm.org/
Source: content.nejm.org
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.
Stacey Racille Smith AMEN TO THIS!!!!!!!
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) With the flu season underway and the new H1N1 flu impacting ICUs everywhere, this image of Dr. Antoinette Spevetz in Korea is a most appropriate reminder of the simplest thing we can do to reduce transmission of infection -- wash your hands!
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) The most popular article from September's CCM focused on Clostridium difficile-associated disease and mortality among the elderly critically ill. These patients represent about 50% of ICU patients with Clostridium difficile-associated disease and have a higher 30-day mortality than younger patients. Understand strategies in optimizing treatment decisions.
Source: journals.lww.com
Objective: To describe the epidemiology of and to develop a simple 30-day mortality clinical decision rule among critically ill patients ≥65 yrs. Increasing incidence of hospitalizations with and emergence ...
