September 20, 2016

EfCCNa is happy to announce a new opportunity for colleagues interested in the Exchange Programme:

University Hospital Perugia, Italy

Perugia University Hospital consists of 700 beds. All major specialities are represented. In the Hospital there are 5 different ICUs: 13 beds of general ICU, 7 beds of heart and thoracal ICU, 10 beds of CICU 4 beds of RICU, 7 beds of NICU. There are about 40000/year access at the Accident & Emergency Department.

There is a Centre of Emergency Medical Services of Umbria (the emergency telephone number118/112), with 7 nurse workstation. There is school for nursing, medical and health professions students. We have various trainer in our team for BLS-D and PBLS-D There is a Skills Lab (www.csma.unipg.it), where the most common medical and nursing interventations can be practiced.

September 12, 2016

August 22, 2016

July 13, 2016

Today, the latest issue of connect has been released, and is now available at connectpublishing.org.

July 7, 2016

The department of Intensive Care of the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has developed a special communication app for the adult and pediatric ICU patients, who cannot speak because of an intubation, being on a ventilator or breathing through a tracheostoma.

The app, called voICe, was released in May 2013 and has been used in the Radboud University Medical Centre and 100 other hospitals in the Netherlands & Belgium ever since.Many improvements have been achieved, and in May 2016, a special enlarged keyboard  for the write canvas and a translation in the English language were launched.

We invite you and your colleagues to visit the website www.voice-intensivecare.comand meet the app and its communication possibilities for your ICU patients.

Please be so kind to spread the news about the app voICe in your country.

VoICe is available in the European App Store,
see tags ‘voice intensive care’,
‘voice’ or ‘intensive care’.
Availability in the USA, Canadian and
Australian app Store will follow soon.

Willem Roudijk,
Patient Care Advisor
Radboud UMC