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Point-of-care testing (POCT) is typically described as a clinical test which is done at, or close to, the physical location of a patient. This could be at a patient’s home, in a pharmacy, a GP’s office or an in-hospital bed site. POCT typically consists of portable devices and instruments, which return results quickly. As a […]

Doctors working in the eight-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid use point-of-care ultrasound extensively to evaluate the condition of critically ill children, and find it essential to their work. Dr José Luis Vázquez Martínez, Head of UCIP at Hospital Ramón y Cajal, with over 25 years’ experience […]

Neonatal intensive care units can be noisy places which can disturb the sleep patterns of the youngest patients in the hospitals and have a negative effect on their health. In an effort to ameliorate this, some NICUs have set quiet times to limit exposure to noise. However, little was known about the effects of the […]

Elderly women account for a large part of the world’s population. The number of females aged 60 and over is on course to cross one billion in 2050. This would correspond to a tripling of the level from 335 million in 2000. Older women out-number older men, and this imbalance rises with age. Indeed,  the […]