News Headlines for Intensivist (ICU) Issues
Advanced ICU Care Begins Delivering 24/7 Coverage and a Tele-ICU Solution to ...
30 Jan 2012 at 9:02am
Advanced ICU Care Begins Delivering 24/7 Coverage and a Tele-ICU Solution to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
On January 10, the hospital, part of Rockford Health System, partnered with Advanced ICU Care(R), the nation's largest independent provider of tele-ICU services, to deliver monitoring by highly trained intensivist physicians and critical care ...
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Program allows long-distance monitoring of local VA patients - Chillicothe Ga...
12 Jan 2012 at 7:32am
Program allows long-distance monitoring of local VA patients
Chillicothe Gazette
A Tele ICU nurse will be on staff around the clock and a board-certified intensivist will be on staff overnight -- 7 pm to 7 am -- seven days per week. The Tele ICU nurse can assist the bedside nurse by performing high-risk medication audits, ...
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Paul Levy: End-of-life Conversations, as Seen By the Intensivist - Becker's H...
13 Jan 2012 at 6:35pm
Paul Levy: End-of-life Conversations, as Seen By the Intensivist
Becker's Hospital Review
This is my first day of a 7-day stretch in a tertiary ICU. The average census in this ICU is 10, but today we have had to surge to 15. Let me stop right there. This is doctor (and nurse) shorthand for, "I expect to be very busy, very tired, ...
Winchester Medical Center critical care unit: 'Brighter and cheerful' - North...
21 Jan 2012 at 12:55am
Winchester Medical Center critical care unit: 'Brighter and cheerful'
Northern Virginia Daily
Dr. T. Glen Boude, who serves as director of Valley Intensivists, spoke of the patients and caregivers. Bouder said he considers the intensive care unit "not as a building but as a proud group of professionals of all different types who give their all ...
Children's hospital raises spirits & questions - El Paso Inc.
30 Jan 2012 at 12:42pm
Children's hospital raises spirits & questions
El Paso Inc.
There are 50 tiny beds in the children's hospital's neonatal intensive care unit and those patients will be looked after by a team of pediatric intensivists. The El Paso Children's Hospital has an 18-month budget that begins Feb.
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ATA To Medicare: Broaden Hospital Telemedicine Participation Rules - Informat...
10 Jan 2012 at 2:00pm
ATA To Medicare: Broaden Hospital Telemedicine Participation Rules
InformationWeek
An increasing number of facilities have "eICUs" that allow intensivists to monitor ICU patients remotely. The ATA letter notes that this approach could help hospitals that are unable to hire intensivists or that don't have enough of these specialists ...
Robotic doctor seeing Lake County ICU patients - Central Florida News 13
6 Jan 2012 at 4:29pm
Central Florida News 13
Robotic doctor seeing Lake County ICU patients
Central Florida News 13
“But it's up to the intensivist on call to make that decision.” With this technology, the physician extender can get a reading of the patient's heartbeat and Dr. Jimenez can be listening to it miles away. “If he hears some sort of abnormality that ...
CytoSorbents 2011 End of Year Shareholder Letter - MarketWatch (press release)
11 Jan 2012 at 6:10am
CytoSorbents 2011 End of Year Shareholder Letter
MarketWatch (press release)
As discussed in our Q3 2011 earnings report released in November 2011, we have been pleased by the initial interest in CytoSorb(TM) expressed by critical care intensivists, nephrologists, infectious disease specialists, and other physicians in Germany ...
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ICU Nurses Favor Personal Touch in Telemedicine - MedPage Today
8 Jan 2012 at 6:30pm
MedPage Today
ICU Nurses Favor Personal Touch in Telemedicine
MedPage Today
A total of 179 nurses among three critical care units in two university-affiliated hospitals, which used remote intensivists and nurses, were surveyed via the Internet. Among the 93 respondents (response rate of 52%), 72 had worked at least one ...
ATA CEO: 7 Market Trends Shaping the Future of Telemedicine - PR Newswire (pr...
5 Jan 2012 at 3:13pm
ATA CEO: 7 Market Trends Shaping the Future of Telemedicine
PR Newswire (press release)
On a smaller scale, intensivists at Inova Health System in Virginia are based at corporate office building and provide remote ICU services to 122 ICU beds throughout northern Virginia. Other health systems are looking closely at these developments and, ...
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