C huck Gottlich (Figure 1) was born in Dallas, Texas, on October 6, 1944. After graduating from Tulane University in 1966, he attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and graduated with the class of 1970. Th e University of California at San Francisco is where he fi nished his medical internship and fi rst year of residency. After being in the US Air Force for a period of 2 ...

Data Resource Profile: the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) Registry of Admissions to Adult Intensive Care Units Nick van de Klundert, Rebecca Holman,* Dave A. Dongelmans and Nicolette F. de Keizer National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of ...

Pain management in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) is continually evolving, with several new nonopioids expanding the list of available agents. Pain in the PACU is not an inevitable outcome of surgery. With careful planning, multimodal analgesic techniques instituted preoperatively will reduce pain in the PACU. Accurate assessment of the characteristics of pain will direct rational drug cho...

In a prospective survey of treatment on a coronary care unit 23.6% of patients who received medication had one or more side effects. In several cases these were severe enough to cause marked deterioration of the patient's clinical status. Whilst antiarrhythmic therapy is an integral part of modern coronary care its potential hazards should be recognized, particularly in the elderly patient.

1 Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne 92104, France 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Western Clinical School, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 410 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA 4Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospi...

1 Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and 2 Simulation Centre for Patient Safety, Tamaki Innovation Campus, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92-019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand 3 Department of Anaesthesia, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand 4 Medicine Education and Student Office, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Australia 5 Dep...

In recent decades, we have witnessed dramatic reductions in the mortality risk of acute myocardial infarction and, at the same time, concerted and fruitful efforts to reduce length of stay. In this issue, Senaratne et al. report the results of an expanded strategy of early discharge, which included most patients admitted to the Coronary/Intermediate Care Unit (CICU) of the Grey Nuns Hospital in...

The Spanish Working Group on Coronary Artery Disease of Spanish Society of Cardiology has considered to be necessary the development of this document on the need, structure and organization of Intermediate Cardiac Care Units (ICCU). Acute coronary syndrome registries show that an important percentage of patients receive a suboptimal care, due to an inadequate management of health resources or a...

Wide complex tachycardias are a commonly encountered entity in coronary care units, intensive care units and emergency departments. Though, these arrhythmias are potentially fatal, they need to recognized first and treated appropriately. Associated physical signs are helpful in this. We present a case of a 54-year-old-female who recently underwent placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibr...