Profession's future: A concerned physician easily available

Toward A Highly Available Future Internet

Numerous cyberattack incidents have demonstrated adversaries’ capability to cause Internet outages lasting hours or even days, jeopardizing governmental, financial, telecommunication, transportation, and healthcare services. With the intensity and frequency of cyberattacks constantly growing, it becomes crucial to find a way to provide availability guarantees despite active adversaries. As an i...

Pain physician embraces the future.

As the transition of editors proceeds we keep in mind the above perceptive statement by the great American jurist, soldier and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Holmes identified one of the intricacies of how we practice medicine. That is, our decisions are based on knowledge, but are equally guided by the breadth of our experiences. From its inception Pain Physician has been dedicated to providi...

Academisation of the Health Professions – Achievements and Future Prospects

Im November 2009 wurde die „Hochschule für Gesundheit“ in Bochumgegründet. Es ist die erste Fachhochschule in staatlicher Trägerschaft, an der die Fächer Ergotherapie, Logopädie, Physiotherapie, Hebammenkunde und Pflege als grundständige und primärqualifizierende Bachelor-Studiengänge angeboten werden. Die Aufnahmekapazität wird in der ersten Ausbaustufe 400 Studierende pro Jahr betragen (ca. 1...

Looking to the future: health professions education in Texas.

Early Prediction of Intensive Care Unit–Acquired Weakness Using Easily Available Parameters: A Prospective Observational Study

INTRODUCTION An early diagnosis of Intensive Care Unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) using muscle strength assessment is not possible in most critically ill patients. We hypothesized that development of ICU-AW can be predicted reliably two days after ICU admission, using patient characteristics, early available clinical parameters, laboratory results and use of medication as parameters. METHODS ...