Critical Care Medicine
Expanding Capnometry to Nontraditional Settings
Extended Critical Care Management
International Standards for Safety in Intensive Care Medicine
Objective Pulmonary Function Monitoring during
Mechanical Ventilation
Expanding Capnometry to Nontraditional Settings
Deployment of microstream capnography in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings now enables physicians to rapidly, accurately, and noninvasively detect changes in the status of patients suffering a variety of emergency, acute, and chronic cardiopulmonary conditions. Critical decisions to admit patients for treatment, to transfer patients from intensive care units, to switch from bi-level to mechanical ventilation, and to wean patients from ventilation can be made more objectively and cost effectively using microstream capnography.
Some related materials produced by Communicore:
White Paper
Microstream
Technology--Expanding the Role ofClinical
Capnography
International Standards for Safety in Intensive Care Medicine
In a program modelled after its parallel work in the development of international safety standards for anesthesiology, Communicore conceived and subsequently coordinated the activities of the International Task Force on Safety in the Intensive Care Unit. With representation from leading intensivists from ten countries, the Task Force developed a set of standards that could be applied worldwide, regardless of medical and economic resource circumstances. These standards were later endorsed by the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine and commended to intensive care practitioners worldwide.
Related materials produced by Communicore:
Article & Editorial
International Task Force
on Safety in the Intensive Care Unit. International standards for safety
in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care Medicine. 1993; 3:178181.
Objective Pulmonary Function Monitoring during Mechanical Ventilation
Mechanical ventilation, while one of the most effective procedures in critical care medicine, has long been practiced more as an imperfect art than a science. Inadequate patient monitoring by the ventilator's built-in monitors has too often resulted in the patient fighting with, rather than being assisted by, the ventilator. New technology that monitors the patient's pulmonary function rather than the ventilating machine can effectively address this significant clinical challenge.
Some related materials produced by Communicore:
White Paper
Emerging
Issues in Mechanical Ventilation Management
Issues Videos
Patient
Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation
Reducing
ICU Costs Through Improved Mechanical Ventilation
Monitoring
Article
Meister, S. Emerging risks: Inappropriately
prolonged mechanical ventilation. QRC Advisor. 1993; 9(6):
13.
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