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Friday, 01/22/2010
Idibaps Respiratory Research Group Impact Factor substantially increased during 2009
The number of articles published keeps growing and the impact factor has increased from 76.37 in 2008 to 212.64 in 2009
The Impact Factor of scientific articles published by members of Idibaps Respiratory Research Group keeps rising. Whereas by the end of 2008 figures showed an Impact Factor of 76.37, at the end of 2009 it has reached 212.64.
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Friday, 01/15/2010
Lina Saucedo: “Working in the research group has been a very fruitful experience”
Colombian Medical Resident of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care talks about her experience in Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases Research Group from IDIBAPS.
During her fellowship in the research group, which will end by next September, Lina Maria Saucedo Jaramillo, a current resident in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Sabana, Bogotà, has learned many aspects regarding all phases of the research process, and has also understood the importance of the rigour in biomedical research.
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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.
