Issue 26, December 2008 Targeting Anesthesia Care

Anesthesia in the Target!

"Targeting Anesthesia Care" is our current theme and completes the 9th volume of Clinical Window Web Journal.

Anesthesiologists optimize care according to the clinical needs of a patient. There are generalized guidelines or care algorithms, but we should also take into account inter-individual variability of a patient. I have selected two articles as examples from different methods of anesthesiology, intravenous and regional anesthesia.

The "Computer Assisted Intravenous Anesthesia" -article comes from the research team of Prof. L. Barvais (Brussels, Belgium). At the Erasmus University Hospital, they have studied the subject extensively, and they report on their developments from both practical and theoretical perspectives.

In their practical article "Ultrasound-Guided Upper Extremity Blocks" Drs. Morito and Popovic (New York, USA) illustrate how ultrasound can display new landmarks, creating new alternatives in regional anesthesia.

In total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA), we can use pharmacological algorithms to target drug concentrations according to population based PK/PD modeling. More....

Our recent issues

(November 2008)
New clinical area: Neonatal Care
Our 25th issue did extend its scope to neonatal intensive care units (NICU), with a topic: "Early Health and Neonatal Care". CW has been collaborating with the NICU professionals' international web site that is closely linked to Karolinska University Hospital In Stockholm, Sweden. I am extremely happy to publish clinical articles "99nicu" team has prepared for this Clinical Window (and there will be more in the future).
Dr. Johansson reviewed how Preterm birth predisposes to cardiovascular disease in adulthood, and Dr. Rakow elucidated clinically important facts regarding Acute renal failure in the newborn. More...

(August 2008)
Airway Suction and Lung Spirometry was our #24th issue. There was a clinical paper by B. Almgren PhD on Airway Suction, (plus her popular CW presentation slides from ISICEM). In addition, inventor of Spriodynamics, prof Ola Stenqvist (Gothenburg) had prepared for CW his article on Alveolar P/V curves and regional lung mechanics - and there is more. Click here to see issue 24.

O. Stenqvist, MD

B. Almgren PhD

Congress News

(News: October 2008)
11th Clinical Window: "Mechanical ventilation, recent developments"
September 2008 at ESICM in Lisbon, Portugal
We did it again: thanks for the audience of 220 intensivists. Our program can be found behind this link! -IK/ed.

11th CW at ESICM in Lisbon

(News: June 2008)
10th Clinical Window: "Anesthesiology in three dimensions"
Our tenth symposium in Copenhagen was really a "jubilee", as we had over 400 clinicians in the audience. Proceedings will appear on the web this autumn - thanks to speakers, I have got copies of their presentations, and I am editing them for publication - IK/Ed.

10th CW at Euroanaesthesia

(News: April 2008)
9th Clinical Window: "Infection control in mechanical ventilation"
We made it again as part of the ISICEM scientific program in Brussels (March 2008) and we had a packed room of over 150 participants.
Thanks to our two speakers who made this an excellent educational seminar on Noninvasive ventilation, infection control and proper means to suction our high demanding intensive care patients. Active discussions. Excellent to meet so many health care professionals, your feed-back is always appreciated. - IK/Ed.

9th CW in Brussels - touching base on VAP at ICU

(News: March 2008)
8th Clinical Window: "Intelligent Integration"
This we organized in Cape Town as part of the World Congress of Anaesthesiology (March 2008). Thanks to the great audience of 200, who attended our lectures on Intelligent Integration! - IK/Ed.

8th CW in Capetown - World Anesthesiology

Recent Clinical Window Scientific Workshops

8th Clinical Window Symposium: Three clinical experts on Intelligent Integration. 14th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA), Cape Town, South Africa.
We did it: thanks to the audience of over 200 clinicians in Cape Town!

9th Clinical Window Symposium: Infection control in mechanical ventilation.
28th Int'l Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM). Brussels, Belgium
We did it: thanks to the audience of 150 clinicians in Brussels!

10th Clinical Window Symposium: Anesthesiology in three dimensions.
Euroanaesthesia 2008 (ESA) Copenhagen, Denmark.
We did it: thanks to the audience of over 400 clinicians!

11th Clinical Window Symposium: Clinical Aspects on Respiratory Mechanics
European Soc. Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), Lisbon, Portugal
We did it: thanks to the audience of over 220 clinicians!

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