Tag: video
The effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality for emergency general surgery
The effect of day of the week on outcome after surgery is the subject of debate. The aim was to determine whether day of the week of emergency general surgery alters short- and long-term mortality. Dr Mike Gillies and... read more
CHS using virtual critical care for heart patients
It just might be the future of medicine. Using cameras, microphones and medical sensors, heart surgeons and cardiologists inside the Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute at Carolinas HealthCare System are treating patients... read more
SCCM Congress Session Centers on Physician-Assisted Suicide
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS/E) is a topic of intense debate in society, not least among critical care medicine specialists, who treat many patients at or near the end of life. Watch a video that features... read more
Redirecting Videolaryngoscopy
The debate of VL versus DL is not a new one and most will remember several years ago when respected voices were making strong statements about the impending irrelevance of DL as they hailed a new standard intubation device,... read more
Bariatric surgery may protect against heart failure
Bariatric surgery appears to reduce substantially the risk of heart failure.... read more
Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs
In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to... read more
Hypoxic guard systems in anesthesia systems
Critical Care News met with Dr Jan Hendrickx, an expert in kinetics of inhaled agents and carrier gases, to hear his first impressions of the active hypoxic guard O2GUARD in anesthesia machine FLOW-i. Watch when Dr Hendrickx... read more
New Podcast Follows Up on SSC Concepts and Implementation
In the newly available iCritical Care podcast SCCM Pod-326 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Creating Spread for Quality Improvement, Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Jane Taylor, Ed.D, about quality improvement science and her contributions... read more
