tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Eighth World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, 28 October–1 November 2001, Sydney, Australia: Harm minimization and effective risk managemen"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Eighth World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, 28 October–1 November 2001, Sydney, Australia: Harm minimization and effective risk management. | Available online http content 6 1 089 Meeting report Eighth World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine 28 October-1 November 2001 Sydney Australia Harm minimization and effective risk management Naresh Ramakrishnan Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville Victoria Australia Correspondence Naresh Ramakrishnan dr_nramakrishnan@ Published online 28 November 2001 Critical Care 2002 6 89-91 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract The 8th World Congress saw the presentation of several late-breaking findings such as the role of insulin in reducing mortality and technologies such as vital microscopy. There were heated debates for and against the role of gastric tonometry enteral nutrition extracorporeal membrane oxygenation the question of closed or open intensive care units and several others. The overall message was the need to study outcomes and practise intensive care in a sensitive and humane fashion. Keywords acute respiratory distress syndrome critical care haemofiltration insulin sepsis This report covers the 8th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and the pre-congress satellite meeting Ventilation and Oxygenation - Rainforest to Reef held in Cairns Australia 23-26 October 2001 and the postcongress Symposium on Critical Care Nephrology held in Melbourne Australia 1-3 November 2001. The world congress is one of the largest critical care meetings in the world with participation from researchers and clinicians from all over the world. Despite the recent tragic world events more than 2000 delegates attended the meeting which catered for anyone with an interest in critical care and was hosted jointly by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society ANZICS and the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses under the aegis of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Professor Malcolm McD Fisher of the Royal Northshore Hospital St Leonards New South