Perioperative Medicine and Neonatal Intensive Care Experts Collaborate to Unveil New Educational Initiative; Cure&Care

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"When considering the best treatment plan for a patient in clinical areas such as perioperative medicine, clinicians need high-quality, unbiased, non-promotional educational information in order to make informed decisions that are in the interests of their patients," explains Dr David Green , Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesethics, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, King's College, London, UK , and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the .

Developed in partnership with leading perioperative medicine and neonatal intensive care experts from across Europe , aims to help healthcare professionals overcome the current challenges in treating and managing patients in clinical practice by creating an open forum for peer-to-peer education and best-practice sharing.

"The educational initiative has been specifically designed to address these complexities, by widening healthcare professionals' access to crucial information related to their specialty, in order to drive forward advancements in patient care that have the potential to improve patient safety and long-term outcomes," explains Dr Gudrun Kunst , Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesethics, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, King's College, London, UK , and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the .

The three resources currently available are:

All resources can be accessed by registering as a community member via the educational portal http://www.cureandcareportal.com.

You can also keep up to date with new information and resources as they become available via Twitter: @cureandcareteam.

The educational initiative is designed to provide credible, unbiased educational resources to healthcare professionals practicing in the multidisciplinary fields of neonatal intensive care and perioperative medicine.

The initiative is sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Covidien, AG. An educational grant is defined as a financial mechanism to support the advancement of medical education for healthcare professionals, patients or the public in areas important to Covidien. This educational grant is provided with the understanding that control over the selection of content, faculty, educational methods, materials and format are held solely by the third-party organiser of the educational event, activity or resources, in this case AXON Communications.

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