Global Health And Critical Care Medicine An Issue Of Critical Care Clinics

In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic. Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in the field, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.

In consultation with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Guest Editor Christi Delemos has created an issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics that gives the readers an opportunity to discover critical care nursing practices from critical care nurses around the world. Authors will have the opportunity to share the contributions of critical care nurses to health care globally. Current challenges in managing critical care patients anywhere in the world are discussed; articles are specifically devoted to ICU Nursing Priorities in the United States; Caring for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Australian Nursing Perspectives; Use of Diaries in ICU Delirium Patients: German Nursing Perspectives; Caring for Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnnoid Hemorrhage: Nursing Perspectives from the UK; Critical Care Nursing in India; Nursing Priorities in Critical Care Nursing in the Philippines; The Glasgow Coma Scale: A European and Global Perspective on Enhancing Practice; and Care of the Patient with Acquired Brain Injury in Latin America and the Caribbean. Readers will come away with new perspectives of care for the critical care patient.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics edited by Dr. Robert Hyzy on Enhancing the Quality of Care in the ICU features topics such as: Taking Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates to Zero, Preventing ICU Delirium, Avoiding Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea, Reducing ventilator associated complications and pneumonia, Can Venous Thromboembolism be avoided?, Preventing urinary catheter associated infections, Improving ICU quality through collaboratives, Do performance measures enhance patient quality in the ICU, and The Future of Quality in the ICU.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Post-intensive Care Syndrome & Chronic Critical Illness, with topics including: Chronic Critical Illness; Chronic Critical Illness and Predicting Outcomes; Persistent Critical Illness; Rehospitalization and Preventing CCI; Measuring Post-Intensive Care Syndrome; Post-Intensive Care Syndrome and teh Role of the ICU Clinician; Frailty and the Association between Long-Term Recovery After ICU; The Role of the Muscles in Post-Intensive Care Syndrome; Intensive Care Nutrition and Post-Intensive Care Recovery; Early mobilization in the ICU to Improve Long Term Recovery; The Use of Sedation in the ICU and Long-Term Outcomes; Cognitive Function after Critical Illness; Anxiety and Depression after ICU; and Family and Support Networks after ICU.

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Lauren R. Sorce and Joy D. Howell bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pediatric Critical Care. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as point-of-care ultrasound for pediatric critical care providers; transfusion strategies in the 21st century; global pediatric critical care; workforce diversity; and more. Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including pediatric redeployment: unique challenges created by COVID-19; ECMO then and now; PCCM in 21st century and beyond; pediatric critical care outcomes; cardiac output monitoring; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on pediatric critical care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSIC- CM) has reached the age of maturity. Physicians, nurses, and many others associated with the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine will be coming from all corners of the world to Florence, Italy in August, 2009 to celebrate the 10th quadrennial congress. Every 4 years for the last 36 years, congresses in the magnificent venues of London (1973), Paris (1977), Washington (1981), Jerusalem (1985), Kyoto (1989), Madrid (1993), Ottawa (1997), Sydney (2001), and Buenos Aires (2005) have sig- fied an ever-developing process which has resulted in the four pillars of the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, namely partnership, ethics, professionalism, and competence. The first pillar is based on a stronger interdisciplinary collaboration and a mul- professional partnership in the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. In recent decades, professional activity in medicine has been regulated by well-defined, universal principles, such as the welfare of the patient, autonomy, social justice, and the patient–physician relationship. The second pillar, ethics, has offered welcomed assistance to all these principles in establishing an ethics curriculum.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Marie Baldisseri, Mary Reed, and Randy Wax, in collaboration with Consulting Editor John Kellum, is devoted to Intensive Care Unit in Disaster. Topics in this issue include: Intensive care role in disaster management; Preparing the ICU for disaster; Augmenting capacity; Triage; Natural disasters; Biological/pandemic disasters; Chemical disasters; Radiation; Anthropogenic (terrorist/criminal act) disasters; Special populations (i.e., chronically ill, morbidly obese, pregnant); Pediatrics; Austere environments; Hospital as disaster Ground Zero; and Special considerations (i.e., mental health, ethics, public relations).