Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E. - Proceedings of the 22st Postgraduate Course in Critical Medicine Venice-Mestre, Italy - November 9-11, 2007

Improving standards of care is a real challenge in Intensive Care Medicine. Bettering clinical performance, patient safety, risk management and audit represents the cornerstone for raising the quality of care in ICU patients. Communication is the platform from where to start to reach a consensus in an extremely crowded area, a unique multidisciplinary and multiprofessional environment in which quality of care and, ultimately, patient survival need to be ameliorated.