22 July 2021

Review: Acute Care and Mental Health Recovery Summit: Breakthrough learnings through collaboration

Digitisation is the future of healthcare. However, without coordination and system-wide support, digitally-driven advancement within healthcare will fail to arise....

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19 July 2021

MDU and CORESS partner to promote safety in surgical practice

The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK's leading medical defence organisation, has launched a new partnership with the Confidential Reporting...

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1 July 2021

Study reveals huge pressures on anaesthesia and critical care workforce

New research published in Anaesthesia  shows the huge pressure that anaesthesia and critical care staff in the UK have been under...

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8 June 2021

Important to reduce patients’ time respiratory intensive care with mechanical ventilation

More active efforts to reduce patients’ time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their suffering and free...

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18 May 2021

Senior anaesthetist and former CQC inspector takes on national medical role

Practice Plus Group (PPG) has appointed Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Marcelle Michail as National Medical Director to its Secondary Care division,...

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13 May 2021

Reducing NHS anaesthetic gas emissions: BPR Medical and Medclair announce collaboration

Gas control specialists BPR Medical and Medclair, a Sweden-based specialist in safe nitrous oxide use, have agreed to share technology...

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11 May 2021

Algorithms show accuracy in gauging unconsciousness under general anaesthesia

Anaesthetic drugs act on the brain but most anaesthetists rely on heart rate, respiratory rate, and movement to infer whether...

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4 May 2021

Anaesthesia doesn’t simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms

Simultaneous measurement of neural rhythms and spikes across five brain areas in animals reveals how propofol induces unconsciousness. Slow rhythm...

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