Canterbury- Hospitals

Hawkes Bay ICU leads NZ in clinical quality

Clinicians at Hawkes Bay Hospitals Intensive Care Unit ICU are amongst the first in the country to have eliminated hospitalacquired intensive care bloodstream infections in their patients for a whole year Intensive Care specialist Ross Freebairn said a year without a patient having bloodstream infection associated with a catheter in a large vein... Read More

Not all ICUs need a specialist at night study

The results published in the New England Journal of Medicine counter an argument from some in the medical community that ICUs need roundtheclock intensivists doctors who specialize in critical care quotOur knee jerk reaction is to try to put intensivists in every ICU at all hours of the day and that reaction is likely a misstep because it overs... Read More