Scanning the horizon: Emerging hospital-wide technologies and their impact on critical care

Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-15

  Suntharalingam, Ganesh ^a   Cousins, Johnathan ^b   Gattas, David ^c   Chapman, Martin ^d  

^a Northwick Park/St Marks Hospitals ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glucose; Health technology assessment; Information technology; Intensive care; Point of care

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; D DIMER; GLUCOSE; METICILLIN; STAPHVAX; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VACCINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROL STRATEGY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNET; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROFLUIDICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CRITICAL CARE; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SEPSIS;

EID: 13844254408     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3046     Document Type: Article

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