Published Articles
Beginner’s Guide to Echography in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
Echography is an emerging diagnostic tool in the field of anaesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine. However, as busy medical practitioners, we often do not have the time to follow time-consuming echography courses. This compact book summarizes the essentials of echography in the above described fields and is a welcome addition to the more detailed [...]
Guidelines for Sedation and/or Analgesia, European Journal of Anaesthesiology
Summary The still ever increasing demand for sedation and/or analgesia for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures puts high pressure on anaesthesia care providers all over Europe. Since the capacity to provide that service by anaesthetists is limited in most European countries, guidelines for non-anaesthetist doctors who want to sedate patients on a high-quality level and especially [...]
ACTA Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Shaping the Future of Scandinavian Anaesthesiology
Traditionally, Scandinavian anaesthesiologists have had a very broad scope of practice, involving intensive care, pain and emergency medicine. European changes in the differ- ent medical fields and the constant reorganising of health care may alter this. Therefore, the Board of the Scandina- vian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Med- icine (SSAI) decided to produce [...]
The European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care by ESA
Testing of knowledge The primary object of any examination is to find out whether the examination candidate has acquired the necessary breadth and depth of knowledge, as judged by the examiners. The examination standard, therefore, is set by the examiners who act as the agents of the diploma-granting body – in this case the European [...]
A Guide to Cardiovascular Health Wall Street Journal
A21st century American with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is much luckier than his 1975 counterpart. He has seen the number of deaths from CVD drop 50 percent, thanks to advances in prevention, diag- nosis and treatment of heart and vascu- lar diseases. That’s the good news. However, there’s a long way to go before scien- tists [...]
The Role of Clinical Oncologists in Acute Oncology Services
Acute oncology as an entity stems from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome & Death and National Chemotherapy Advisory Group reports. It has generally been extended to incorporate management of patients with malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC) and carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP). There is, however, no description or definition of who is best [...]
