Welcome to issue 15 of intensetimes. This first issue of 2012 starts with an invited essay from Dr. John W Devlin, associate professor of pharmacy at Northeastern University, and adjunct associate professor of medicine at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA. Dr. Devlin has provided us with an excellent and most timely survey of emerging trends in ICU sedation practice. The PDF version of issue 15 of intensetimes can be obtained here.
The second part of what we hope you will find a readable and informative issue of intensetimes includes our coverage of ISICEM 2012. This meeting habitually sets high standards of medical education and debate, and this year was no exception. Not for the first time our report, available here, represented only a fraction of the material that attracted our attention. Additional reportage, in PDF form, is available from the links below.