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Friday, 12/11/2009
Dr. Miquel Ferrer talks about guidelines for Hospital Acquired Pneumonia and results of his latest study
He expressed his concerns regarding microbial prediction accuracy of latest ATS/IDSA 2005 guidelines
Interviewed by Idibaps Respiratory Research Dr. Miquel Ferrer, senior investigator of our group on Applied research in respiratory diseases, talked about community and hospital acquired pneumonia guidelines for the clinical practice. He expressed his concerns regarding microbial prediction accuracy of latest ATS/IDSA 2005 guidelines. He also described current situation and burden for Intensive Care Units of the new H1N1 flu. Ultimately, he highlighted that currently there is no evidence to associate higher risk for hospital acquired pneumonia in hospitalized patients with H1N1 Influenza.
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Thursday, 11/26/2009
Prof. Tobias Welte compares German and Spanish health systems' responses to swine flue: “I’m not convinced that outpatient services are good enough in Spain”
He said so in an interview with Idibaps Respiratory Research
Interviewed by Idibaps Respiratory Research, Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Prof. Tobias Welte talked about community acquired pneumonia in nursing home facilities. He also gave his insight into Influenza A virus and how some european hospitals are dealing with it; he pointed out that outpatient services in Spanish hospitals may not be good enough to cope with secondary bacterial pneumonia, which he described as the major risk of swine flu.
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Thursday, 11/19/2009
British Journal of Anaesthesia publishes our pioneering work on respiratory mechanics in patients admitted to ICU
The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is a useful and noninvasive technique that can be used to monitor respiratory mechanics during withdrawal of mechanical ventilation in intubated patients
The article Respiratory Impedance during weaning from mechanical ventilation in a mixed population of critically ill patients is the first job that tests a noninvasive technique, the Forced Oscillation Technique (FOT) to measure resistance and reactance of the lungs of outpatients admitted to ICUs who start weaning or withdrawal of mechanical ventilation.
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Friday, 11/13/2009
Physiotherapist Dani Martí joins IDIBAPS Respiratory Research
He will work as a physiotherapist on the Community acquired pneumonia research line
Dani Marti physiotherapist who has recently joined our research group to conduct clinical research in the field of pneumonia. He is currently working on the field of community-acquired pneumonia. Specifically he participates in the FIS "Health Care Associated Pneumonia" project.
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Tuesday, 11/03/2009
Leading Organizations Join Forces to Launch First Annual World Pneumonia Day, Fight World’s Leading Child Killer
WHO and UNICEF Release Global Action Plan to Combat Pneumonia as Part of Historic Effort
Dr. Antoni Torres, Head of Pneumology Department at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and Research team leader of the group Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases, says: “There are preventive and treatment strategies easy to implement that could prevent the deaths of many children”
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Wednesday, 10/28/2009
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Congress focused on Influenza A (H1N1)
The results of two studies on Influenza A (H1N1) were presented at the Congress
Characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of critically ill patients in Canada and Australia with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection were presented at the latest European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Congress, concurrently with early publications in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA 2009 Oct 12 Epub Ahead of Print).
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Monday, 10/26/2009
Roundtable to discuss strategies for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia
The session is open to specialized staff in intensive care and will take place in the classroom 11 of the Faculty of Medicine from 17.00 to 19.00 on Tuesday 27 October 2009
The group Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases (IAMR) has organized a meeting with the support of COVIDIEN addressed to intensive care staff to put on the table the most controversial aspects of mechanical ventilation-associated pneumonia (VAP) and innovative strategies to prevent it.
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Thursday, 10/22/2009
Mariano Esperatti and Cristina Esquinas presented their work at the II CIBERES Training Meeting in Mallorca
More than 70 young researchers from Spain attended the Meeting and they had the chance to share both their experiences and the national and international studies that they are carrying out
Research physician Mariano Esperatti gave a lecture and research nurse Cristina Esquinas presented a poster session at the II CIBERES (Ciber de Enfermedades Respiratorias) Training Meeting on Respiratory Diseases that was held in Mallorca last 15-16 October.
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Saturday, 10/17/2009
Hospital Clinic heads the ranking of screenings in the second phase of MOSAR surgical
Dr. Antonio Martínez and Encarna Moreno explained their experience to the other participating centres in MOSAR study
The amount of screenings done in Hospital Clinic exceeds 60%, which is believed to be the minimum percentage in order to obtain significant results. This is the reason why both Dr. Antonio Martínez and research nurse Encarna Moreno held a teleconference in which they described their experience to the other participating centres in the MOSAR study. In Martínez’s opinion, the key to this success is down to the involvement not only from medical assistants but also from research nurses, whose task is to supervise and help collecting samples.
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Saturday, 10/10/2009
Many biomedical research projects might stop due to the current crisis
Ciberes budget cut will weaken the stability of research staff
The current economic crisis has an impact on all fields of society. To this respect, next 2010 Spain government’s Budget is to reduce public spending on research up to 18%, which will lead, in turn, to a Ciberes (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Enfermedades Respiratorias) budget cut up to 35,8%. Not only will this weaken the stability of research staff, but might also stop a lot of biomedical research projects.