By Vera Spatenkova, MD, PhD, head of Liberec NICU, the Academy of Neurointensive Medicine, and the Neurointensive Section of the Czech Society of Intensive Care Medicine The neurointensive care unit (NICU) of the Neurocenter at the Regional Hospital in Liberec is the first combined...
By Francisco Gomez (left), MD, Mohammad El-Ghanem (center), MD and Fawaz Al-Mufti, MD (right) The authors have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to the topics discussed in this column. This article may discuss non-FDA approved devices and “off-label” uses. The...
By Caroline Der Nigoghossan, PharmD, BCCCP, and Shivani Ghoshal, MD (pictured) Intravenous crystalloid administration is one of the most common interventions performed in critically ill patients. However, during the last decade, a growing body of literature suggests potential harm with 0.9...
By Stefanie Amelung, RPh, Dipl.-Pharm. 1,2 (left), and Carina Hohmann, RPh, PhD 3 (right) Affiliations: 1 Pharmacy Department, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology, Heidelberg University Hospital,...
By Faheem Sheriff, MD, and Hamisi K. Shabani, MD The Muhimbili National Hospital is the largest referral hospital in Tanzania, handling a broad spectrum of pathology, including critically ill neurologic and neurosurgical cases of the highest complexity. It is affiliated with the Muhimbili...
By Halinder S. Mangat, MD My wife and I both lived in Africa at different stages of our lives, so there was no hesitation when opportunity arose via the Global Health Department at Weill Cornell Medicine to return to this enigmatic continent. In addition to teaching the curriculum in...
By Joanne B. Robles, MD and Geraldine Siena L. Mariano, MD (pictured) In the Philippines, cerebrovascular diseases rank as the second most common cause of mortality in the National Statistics Office epidemiological reports in 2017. Other neurological diseases that require intensive care...
By Yasser B. Abulhasan, MBChB, FRCPC, Chairman, Neurocritical Care-MENA Chapter of IPACCMS The International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (IPACCMS) and the AsianAfrican Conference of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) conduct their...
By Andrew Udy, BHB, MB, ChB, PGCert(AME), FCICM, PhD A History of Intensive Care Training in Australasia The body responsible for vocational training in intensive care medicine in Australia and New Zealand is the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM). CICM was established in 2008 and...
By Lauren Koffman and Starane Shepherd Drs. Starane Shepherd and Lauren Koffman, neurointensivists, from Rush University Medical Center, located in Chicago, Illinois, recently spent several days in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, kicking off a series of educational...