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Headquarters. Brussels, Belgium. Location. Europe. Website. esaic .org. The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care is a European professional association of anaesthetists and anaesthesiologists. It is also active in the fields of emergency, intensive care, pain and perioperative medicine [1]
Online access. Intensive Care Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive care or critical care and emergency medicine. It was established in 1975 as the European Journal of Intensive Care Medicine and obtained its current name in 1977. It is the official journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
The SOFA scoring system is useful in predicting the clinical outcomes of critically ill patients. [8] According to an observational study at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Belgium, the mortality rate is at least 50% when the score is increased, regardless of initial score, in the first 96 hours of admission, 27% to 35% if the score remains unchanged, and less than 27% if the score is reduced. [9]
The Society of Critical Care Medicine ( SCCM) is the largest non-profit medical organization in the practice of critical care. SCCM was established in 1970 and is an independently incorporated, international, educational and scientific society based in the United States. Its members are multi-professional health professionals providing care to ...
Intensive care medicine, also called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. [ 1] It includes providing life support, invasive monitoring techniques, resuscitation, and end-of-life care. [ 2]
He was a Council member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine from 2011-2013. He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine. Since 1980, he is organizing every year in Brussels the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM). Jean-Louis Vincent has received several awards for his work with the ...
Born in 1960, [2] Van den Berghe studied medicine at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Bristol in the UK and graduated in 1985. [3] After 5 years of training, she received a board certification as Specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation in 1989 and after an additional year of specialization she was board certified as "Intensive Care Specialist".
2010 Royal Society of Medicine Elison Cliffe Lecture; 2011 The Galton Lecture and Award (Galton Society) 2014 European Society of Anaesthesia ‘Draeger’ Prize (best critical care paper of the last year) He appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2014, and was the subject of The Life Scientific in 2012.