Intensive care medicine in 2050: managing cardiac arrest

Professional errors and patient safety in intensive cardiac care unit:

Abstract Introduction: Use of progressive technology, clinical skills and caring methods appropriate to critical situations of patient in intensive Cardiac Care Unit is probably related to professional errors and disorder in patient safety. There is a little data about this subject. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore professional errors and patient safety in Cardiac Care Unit. Meth...

The Aassociation between Pre-Cardiac Arrest Comorbidity and Unsuccessful Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Patients with Cardiac Arrest

Background and Objective: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest (CA) have poor prognosis and survival. The association of pre-arrest comorbidity with unsuccessful resuscitation in patients with CA is far from clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between pre-existing comorbidity and unsuccessful resuscitation following CA in Iranian patients. Materials and Met...

Intensive Care Medicine in Spain

[Iatrogenic in intensive care medicine].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Iatrogenic conditions was due of the medical, correctly intervention or not, justified or not, which harmful consequences to the patient. The cares in Intensive Care Medicine present substantial challenges with relation to the security of the patient. The objective of this article is to make one brief revision of literature on the iatrogenic in its concepts and basic t...

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (ICMx) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the SpringerOpen brand. It is dedicated to basic, translational and experimental reserach relating to all facets of critical illness. A prestigious board of committed Senior Editors and Editors underlines the strong belief in this initiative. The journal encourages high-quality submissions with th...