Singapore is a founding member of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (WPACCM). We hosted the Inaugural Congress of the Association in 1981. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

The specialty of intensive care medicine (ICM) is rapidly evolving as economic progress, ageing population, urbanisation, improved living standards, better education and rising patient expectations reshape medicine. A recent report by the Committee on Manpower for Pulmonary and Critical Care Societies (COMPACCS) identified care of the critically ill as...

Alternative financing of health care delivery is one of the most vexing problems facing medicine today. Intensive care in many ways is a perfect example of the core problems facing policymakers responsible for financing health care. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on...

Primary and secondary hepatic malignancies constitute a major health problem. Hepatocellular carcinoma accounts for 90% of all primary hepatic malignancies in the world. While relatively uncommon in Western countries, it is the most prevalent malignant neoplasm in Southeast Asia, South Africa, and many other regions. This article is available only...

In medical history, tracheostomy is one of the oldest operations performed. There are indications that the Egyptians first employed this procedure more than 3500 years ago when Asclepiades of Bithynia described it in the second century BC. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF”...