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Volume 30, Number 3

May 2001

Evolution of Intensive Care Medicine in Singapore

Singapore is a founding member of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (WPACCM). We hosted the Inaugural Congress of the Association in...

Intensive Care Medicine in Singapore: Challenges in a New Era

The specialty of intensive care medicine (ICM) is rapidly evolving as economic progress, ageing population, urbanisation, improved living standards, better education and rising patient...

Alternate Modes of Financing Health Care Technology

Alternative financing of health care delivery is one of the most vexing problems facing medicine today. Intensive care in many ways is a perfect...

Perioperative Treatment with Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein (rBPI21) in Major Liver Surgery: A Concise Summary

Primary and secondary hepatic malignancies constitute a major health problem. Hepatocellular carcinoma accounts for 90% of all primary hepatic malignancies in the world. While...

The Role of Early Tracheostomy in Critically Ill Neurosurgical Patients

In medical history, tracheostomy is one of the oldest operations performed. There are indications that the Egyptians first employed this procedure more than 3500...