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'Suspended Animation' Induced In Mice With Sewer-gas: Effects Are ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Science Daily (press release)...reversible metabolic suppression," says Warren Zapol, MD, chief of Anesthesia and Critical Care at MGH and senior author of the Anesthesiology study.

The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Licenses TheraDoc(R)  -  25 Mar 2008
Genetic Engineering News (press release),...antimicrobial stewardship, adverse drug event monitoring and documentation, and critical care at the 250-bed treatment and research hospital.

Your Health  -  25 Mar 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,The findings in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine suggest not spraying cleaners in the air -- instead, use liquids or powders,

Life Denied: Nurses, Family of Sick Teen March on Health Insurance ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee is America's largest RN union, representing 80000 critical-care nurses from every

Assignment puts students in leadership role  -  25 Mar 2008
Pembroke Daily Observer,..."My five to 10-year plan is to go back to school for certification in some area, perhaps critical care or perhaps as a nurse practitioner," she said.

Where nurses are bullied, the quality of patient care declines  -  25 Mar 2008
News-Medical.net,She recommends the zero-tolerance standards of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Felblinger says, "Administrators who want to promote a

Overlake Hospital Medical Center  -  25 Mar 2008
ADVANCE,...rooms with the latest technology, a new state-of-the-art 48-station Emergency Trauma Center, high-tech single-patient rooms, and a Critical Care Unit.

Echo Therapeutics Announces Agreement for $2000000 Debt Financing  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...to initiating additional studies of our Symphony(TM) tCGM System for glucose monitoring in the diabetes home use and hospital critical care settings.

Office of Media Relations  -  25 Mar 2008
UC Los Angeles,Littner, professor-in-residence of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the UCLA–San Fernando Valley Program, was quoted Friday in a Newsweek article

Fitch Affs Providence Health & Svcs (Washington) at 'AA'; Assigns ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),PHS also operates several critical care hospitals and physician groups, which help generate increased volumes. Revenue generation and operating

A wireless retrofit for remote monitoring  -  25 Mar 2008
ZDNetThis has tremendous potential in both critical care monitoring and wellness applications. A real-time monitor with wireless capability could detect health

House fire latest in rash of blazes  -  25 Mar 2008
MLive.com,University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor before he was moved to a critical-care facility in Jackson, where he never fully recuperated.

Glen Cove Hospital opens $13-million critical care unit  -  Mar 18, 2008
Newsday,BY KATHLEEN KERR | kathleen.kerr@newsday.com 6:54 PM EDT, March 18, 2008 Last Friday, Glen Cove Hospital opened a new $13-million critical care unit with 18

Cardiac Care ; Case Management ; Critical Care ; Emergency Dept ...  -  Mar 21, 2008
ADVANCE,We are recruiting for full-time RNs (Surgery, ER, Open Heart, Critical Care, Cath Lab and Radiology), Cath Lab Techs, Open Heart Surgical Techs,

Nurses Help Keep Patients From Experiencing the Nightmare That is PTSD  -  Mar 24, 2008
Nurse.com,...who lectured on PTSD at the 25th annual Scientific Symposium of the Carolina Virginia Chapter of the Society for Critical Care Medicine in June 2007.

Surgery, Theatres and Critical Care Service Manager  -  Mar 20, 2008
Health Service Journal,With a new acute adult wing housing theatres, wards and Critical Care, which opened in December 2006, the organisation is well placed for the future as a

Awakening the Leader Within  -  Mar 24, 2008
Nurse.com,Roxana Gonzalez, RN, CCRN, is a critical care nurse educator at Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ To comment on this story,

Ontario Strengthens Critical Care System  -  Mar 18, 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),CritiCall Ontario supports physicians across Ontario in accessing and managing the critical care needs of patients, coordinating patient transfers and

Pharmacy Specialist, Critical Care – 0800000962  -  Mar 6, 2008
Seattle Post IntelligencerThis job is responsible for serving as the pharmacy team leader for a Critical Care, developing and maintaining clinical expertise in the specialty area.

PIMS seminar on critical care medicine today  -  Mar 7, 2008
Daily Times,ISLAMABAD: Medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) will organise a seminar on critical care medicine today

Registered Nurse - Unit Based Educator, Critical Care 1.0 SAH ...  -  Mar 6, 2008
Seattle Post IntelligencerThis position is responsible for the development and delivery of nursing and clinical education in a patient care area from basic to advanced practice

Banner telemedicine center backs up ICU staff  -  Mar 18, 2008
Arizona Republic,Banner began the remote monitoring system, in part, due to a shortage of critical-care physicians. Not all community hospitals can recruit or hire specialty

MHS Stroke Coordinator  -  Mar 19, 2008
Seattle Post IntelligencerFive years of experience in Critical Care, Emergency Department or Interventional Radiology Nursing (or combination). Current Washington State License as a

Gwent super-hospital plan  -  Mar 20, 2008
ic Wales,It is expected that the Welsh Assembly Government will fund the new hospitals, which will cost £292m for the specialist critical care centre and a further

Pinoy Kasi Critical care  -  Feb 28, 2008
Inquirer.net,By Michael Tan Healthcare in the United States has been receiving a lot of attention lately, mainly because it is a major issue in the current presidential

Seminar on emergency care held  -  Mar 9, 2008
The Statesman,Inaugurating the first-ever international; seminar on emergency critical care in Orissa, organized by the city-based Ayush hospital and UK-based AOC

Obese people have an advantage when it comes to surviving illness  -  Mar 17, 2008
Canada.com,His study appears in recent issue of the journal, Critical Care Medicine. According to the most recent estimate from the 2004 Canadian Community Health

Timing is Everything When it Comes to Defibrillation  -  Mar 24, 2008
Nurse.com,Lead investigator Elizabeth Hunt, MD, MPh, a critical-care specialist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, says there are several take-home points from this

19th century prison falls short of 21st century needs  -  Mar 21, 2008
Quad City Times,The five-year-old Critical Care Unit mental health treatment center has 185 in jail pods (much like the new Scott County jail) designed for 200.

Critical care: Tech, drugs not enough  -  Mar 9, 2008
Newindpress,BHUBANESWAR: Do you think only setting up of state-of-the art critical care units across the State can solve the problem of trauma care delivery?

Measure will fund trauma centers  -  Mar 22, 2008
SunHerald.com,Providing trauma care is voluntary, so many hospitals choose to reduce their critical-care services or opt out altogether. The public perception that all

Critical care medicine: Still a long way to go  -  Mar 7, 2008
The News - International,By Shahina Maqbool Critical care medicine is yet to be recognised as a specialty in Pakistan. It is time a couple of high profile institutions took the lead

France to support PIMS in critical care management  -  Mar 8, 2008
The News - International,By Our correspondent Guest speakers from high-profile institutions gave lectures on clinical challenges and professional development in critical care

Critical care medicine seminar at Pims  -  Mar 8, 2008
The Post,The seminar provided an opportunity to focus on standardization of intensive care units and recognition of critical care medicine as a specialty.

Alsius Corporation Receives Regulatory Approval in China and Mexico  -  Mar 24, 2008
CNNMoney.com (press release)...device company that develops, manufactures and sells proprietary products to precisely control patient temperature in hospital critical care settings.

Saskatoon Health Region Consolidates Critical Care  -  Mar 3, 2008
Saskatoonhomepage.ca,The Saskatoon Health Region is consolidating its critical care services at St. Pauls and Royal University Hospitals. Pat Simonar, who heads up Critical Care

Turn out lights at bedtime  -  Mar 18, 2008
Baxter Bulletin,Spurred by a growing body of evidence about the health benefits of a good night's sleep, however, critical-care doctors and nurses have begun paying more

Iraq War Has Led to Surgical Advances  -  Mar 23, 2008
Newswise (press release)W. Bryan Gamble, MD, of the US Army Medical Corps shares his "humbling" reflections on progress in the fields of trauma and critical care in the five years

Emil Paganini, MD, Joins NxStage(R) as Critical Care Medical Advisor  -  Feb 28, 2008
CNNMoney.com (press release)..."I am excited that this new role will enable me to continue to work with critical care clinicians, as part of a company that is making significant

Fast Track to Critical Care  -  Feb 25, 2008
Nurse.com,To learn more about ECCO, visit the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Web site at www.aacn.org. Steady growth coupled with a national shortage of

Job: Staff Nurses, STAFF NURSE  -  Mar 13, 2008
Guardian,CALLING ALL CRITICAL CARE/THEATRE/MEDICAL and SURGICAL NURSES Our client, a leading health and social services provider of The Channel Islands is seeking

Ruben Navarro's critical care doctor testifies in organ harvesting ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
KSBY,Ruben Navarro's critical care doctor, Eric Schultz, says he believes Navarro could have stayed alive for hours, maybe days, once taken off a ventilator.

Nurses: Shortages frustrating  -  Mar 24, 2008
Cincinnati Enquirer,Marilyn Albert, a nurse in Cleveland and an NNOC national organizer, said there should be no more than two patients for every nurse on a critical-care floor

Fumo moved from critical-care unit at Hahnemann  -  Mar 6, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,He has been moved from the critical-care unit at Hahnemann University Hospital into a private bed and will probably stay in the hospital the rest of this

Opinion: Dad's ICU Wake-up Call a Reminder of PTSD's Impact  -  Mar 24, 2008
Nurse.com,I was a critical care nurse at that time. But it’sa different story when the patient lying there with the chest tubes and runs of V-tach, punctuated by the

Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine stresses learning CPR  -  Feb 29, 2008
The Desert Sun,The Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine made a commitment in 2000 to train 10 percent of valley residents in CPR, but only accomplished about one-third

Administrative Assistant  -  Mar 23, 2008
Seattle Times,The Regional Hospital has been providing highly-specialized, extended-critical-care, to patients and their families for nearly 15 years.

Without its own critical care center, Arkansas looks to The Med  -  Feb 27, 2008
commercialappeal.com (subscription),By Mary Powers (Contact) Officials from the Regional Medical Center at Memphis and Shelby County were in West Memphis this week arguing that any Arkansas

City Hospital closing ICU beds, moving staff to St. Paul's  -  Mar 3, 2008
Canada.com,Patti Simonar, director of critical care and emergency services for the SHR, said City Hospital's ICU, which typically cares for four critical care patients

Replacement nurses check in  -  Mar 21, 2008
Appeal-Democrat,..."Not every hospital is the same," said Walter Stiehn, a traveling nurse from North Carolina who specializes in critical care. "The basics are the same.

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