Value of community treatment orders in doubt
... services. One year later, hospital admissions and bed days decreased for all patients. Outpatient contacts increased for patients on a community treatment order compared with the control group. Otherwise, orders did not affect subsequent use of health services. This study shows that legislative solution...Implantable device pumps up ailing heart
...ple activities such as ironing clothes or making a bed because their hearts cannot pump enough blood to meet even slight demands. Frazier says only about 2,000 hearts are available for transplant each year. He estimates that half of all class IV patients, or some 30,000 patients, could benefit from the...Stroke survivors have brittler bones, more likely to fracture
...il in the United Kingdom. "When someone is put to bed and has an immobilized limb, the cells that break down bone are overactive." In a review of several studies on osteoporosis and hip fracture after stroke, Poole and his colleagues report that one Swedish study shows hip fracture was two to four tim...Restorative rather than usual home care for elderly patients enhances their function and well being
...d the patients ability to walk and transfer from a bed to a chair; to dress, bathe, eat and use the bathroom independently, as well as to prepare light meals, use transportation, do laundry and housekeeping, shop, use the telephone, and manage oral medications....Behavior management programs help seniors with chronic illnesses sleep better
...t make it difficult to fall asleep, and to stay in bed only when drowsy or sleeping. The HART group consisted of seven commercially produced audiotape recordings derived from a program created for the U.S. Air Force to train pilots and shift workers to sleep better. HART was used over a period of six ...Doctors investigating one stop shop radiotherapy at time of surgery
...hrough a Perspex applicator to the area around the bed of the tumour. The cosmetic effect was very good and there have been no relapses within the 1 to 2 year follow up period of the early study. A phase III randomised trial comparing conventional and intraoperative radiotherapy, which began in November ...New website to could stop intensive care beds going to waste
...r patients. Using a password, hospitals submit the bed state of their ICU to the website, which is consta...en view a comprehensive, up-to-date list of nearby bed space. This system, if successfully implemented, could prevent many critically ill patients dying du...Dog tired? It could be your pooch
...r patients are likely to have pets sleeping on the bed with them," Dr. Shepard says. "That's a significan...ut and waited up to 15 minutes before returning to bed with her pet. "After hearing that anecdote, I began to wonder how many of my patients were sleeping...Imaging tool helps locate recurrent prostate cancer
...cent) had disease confined either to the prostatic bed or the local lymph nodes, while 75 (41 percent) had disease that had spread into distant lymph nodes and/or bone. Comparisons to other imaging techniques showed that only 11 percent of this group had recurrent disease detected by a bone scan and onl...Tanning lamps may increase risks of skin cancers
...f of the girls reported using a commercial tanning bed at least four times in the past year. Suggestions from the public health and medical community have included restricting tanning device use in minors and requiring written informed consent from adults. The use of tanning devices may contribute to th...UT Southwestern receives $1.7 million grant to study effects of long-term space travel on the heart
... be relevant for individuals confined to long-term bed rest, such as patients with spinal-cord injuries, and other conditions associated with cardiac stiffness, like congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease and aging. UT Southwestern space researchers have been awarded numerous competitive grants...West meets East - WHO tuberculosis treatment
...ng of tuberculosis services in Russia is linked to bed numbers, and those people responsible are understandably reluctant to shrink their budgets voluntarily. Likewise, professional authority is intimately allied to hospital capacity. Insecure, vulnerable clinicians are, not surprisingly, wary of change ...National survey examines factors related to high levels of dust mite and cockroach allergen in beds
...or factors associated with increased risk for high bed cockroach allergen levels were: Low income households Presence of food debris Presence of a musty or mildew odor in the home Non-white race of inhabitants. Lead author on the study Darryl C. Zeldin, M.D. said, "This study identifies important f......lier room, beginning with the design of a hospital bed for children between 2 months and 2 years old. Sol...," says Johnson. Selected features of the hospital bed are protected by a collection of U.S. Design Patents 431,946; 432,330; 432,340; and 435,375. Fa...Cotton clothes carry fungal spores into hospitals
...cotton. "Hugging, kissing, sitting on a patient's bed or pulling up a chair create air turbulence and friction within and around the fabric, thus releasing potentially deadly spores," she says. However, less than 7 percent of bone marrow units in a national survey conducted by other researchers restrict......nk/bed while asleep, but 10 had fallen off a lower bed or bunk while bouncing or playing on the bed, and one fell while climbing the ladder to an upper bunk. Eight children were injured by hitting furniture as they fell. Almost a third of the injuries were fractures, most of these occurring in children u...Study finds doctors often unaware that hospital patients have urinary catheters
...pital-acquired infections that lies just under the bed covers: urinary catheters. So finds a multi-center study led by University of Michigan researchers and published in the Oct. 16 issue of the American Journal of Medicine. Overall, the authors report, doctors in the study weren't sure of patients' ca...Rapid improvements in lower back care possible
...ent years. Current recommendations include minimal bed rest, selective use of imaging tests and surgery, ...these recommendations and common practice. Lengthy bed rest is still widely prescribed, and as much as 60 percent of prescribed imaging tests, including x-...UF study shows pumping iron improves strength, independence in frail elderly
..., bathing, dressing, eating, getting in and out of bed and getting around indoors. At the start, after the training period and twice during the following year, the nurses caring for the participants scored them 0, 1 or 2 based on whether they needed complete help, partial help or were totally independe...... had 348 beds, 20 per cent of all inpatient prison bed capacity. The survey revealed that facilities were often poor, staff numbers were low, and many staff were not sufficiently trained. Only one in five of the nursing staff had received mental health training, and almost a third had not had nurse trai...