Questions raised on DNR orders and shorter hospital stays
... his colleagues found little evidence that shorter length of stay actually caused the increase in post-disch...ide some reassurance that it is possible to reduce length of stay without jeopardizing the health of patients. "Improvements in therapies, more rapid admini...UCSF/Baylor team uses new method to measure bone loss in astronauts flying long mission
...d a long space flight, it is much shorter than the length of potential missions to Mars. Since it is not known whether bone loss continues at the same rate or reaches a plateau, these data should not be used to predict bone changes over much longer missions. Co-researchers on the study include: Adrian LeBl...Study suggests brain haemorrhage in babies over age one month unlikely from traumatic delivery
...aematomas, and identified any associations such as length of labour and mode of delivery on the risk of cerebral bleeding. 111 babies were studied between March 2001 and November 2002. 49 babies were born by normal vaginal delivery, 25 by caesarean section, four with the use of forceps, 13 by the use of suc...Antibiotics within 4 hours of arrival at hospital better for pneumonia patients
... a hospital for treatment of pneumonia reduces the length of hospital stay, and may reduce the chances of dy... vs. 12.7 percent) and reduced likelihood that the length of stay (LOS) at the hospital exceeded 5 days (42.1 percent vs. 45.1 percent). The average length o...The human brain and comparative judgments
...ad, processing appears to be distributed along the length of the IPS, with partially different local peaks for each dimension. There is considerable overlap between the local brain regions, and although there may be some neurons that respond to stimuli from a single dimension, those neurons are not likely t...Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
...tle differences in the three-dimensional shape and length of the blockage, there may not be the same problem." The current studies were performed on the aortas of human volunteers. The aorta was chosen for the initial studies because it is one of the largest vessels in the body and it is easily accessible. ...End of life ICU use may require re-evaluation according to University of Pittsburgh study
...nd that terminally ill ICU patients had an average length of stay of 12.9 days at a cost of $24,541 and non-ICU hospitalization of the terminally ill had an average stay of 8.9 days at a cost of $8,548. Nine out of 10 Americans say they would prefer to die at home; however, 20 percent die after receiving th...Mind-body connection in placebo surgery trial studied by University of Denver researcher
... double-blind for at least 12 months. The average length of placebo studies is eight weeks," according to Russell. Dr. McRae notes that similar results related to the placebo effect have been found in other studies with patients with Parkinson's disease. She says that there is a need for placebo con...Continuous insulin monitoring does not raise hospital costs
...patients on the IGCP showed a trend toward shorter length of stay in the hospital and fewer deep sternal wound infections compared to patients with conventional treatment. This supports earlier research showing that better glycemic control improves outcomes for patients with diabetes. Although the study sug...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2004
...and Prevention in Ohio found that arrival time and length of exposure to the World Trade Center (WTC) disast...62 firefighters (319 exposed and 43 unexposed) for length of time and work activities at the disaster site, respirator use, and respiratory symptoms. Pre-WTC...Duration of hospital stay has shortened for patients with heart attack
CHICAGO From 1986 to 1999, the average length of hospital stay for patients with acute myocardia...A/Archives journals. According to the article, the length of hospital stay for patients with AMI has evolved from prolonged bed rest and rehabilitation of mor...Short course of Tibetan yoga improved sleep in cancer patients
... treated for cancer is not necessarily to increase length of life, but to improve the quality of life," says Cohen. "In cancer patients, fatigue is not necessarily directly related to the quality of sleep but given such a small study, the fact that sleep was improved suggests that the health effects of yoga...Families generally happy with initial early intervention services, study shows
...s. "It appears that the problem lies not in the length of time between concerns and diagnosis, which aver...ich averaged 5.2 months," Bailey said. "Also, the length of time from concern to early intervention is much longer for children with developmental delays who...HIV infection progresses to AIDS quicker in developing countries
...niversity in Thailand. The researchers tracked the length of time between HIV infection and AIDS among young Thai men. They also studied the death rate of the men 5-7 years after their HIV infection, which was higher when compared to their counterparts in developed countries. The study, "The Natural History...Researchers invent way to determine optimal conditions for spinal cord nerve regen in lab animals
...ain cells and support axon regrowth throughout the length of the scaffold. In addition, they believe axon counting after one month is an effective way to distinguish the effects of alterations in the microenvironment of axon regeneration. These findings will help lead researchers to the next step -- optimiz...Elastic nails help children with broken legs recover faster than traction and body casting
...ls. The nails are approximately 15 to 20 inches in length and about the width of a radio antenna. Often two nails are necessary for treatment of a fracture. Surgeons remove the nails after the fracture heals, typically six to nine months after surgery. Since 1996, surgeons in the U.S. have implemented the u...Highlights summarized for movement disorders research at 56th annual meeting
...ercent of the patients, which they correlated with length of pergolide treatment. While these changes did not lead to cardiac symptoms in most patients, that was not the case in several others. Follow-up on one patient who stopped taking pergolide indicated an improvement in valve function. This study confi...Kids' year-round asthma symptoms triggered by parent's second-hand smoke
...ients of participating doctors were interviewed at length about many factors. They were asked to recall the number of days during each three-month period of the last year that their child experienced daytime asthma symptoms, nighttime asthma symptoms, or limits on their daily activity due to asthma-related ...Study shows new patient care process can decrease risk to children on mechanical ventilation
...se in unplanned extubations without increasing the length of stay for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit. When children are critically ill and need help with breathing, they may be placed on mechanical ventilation, which means that tubes are placed down their throats and machines regulate their r...Mayo Clinic led study: Minimally invasive surgery safe, effective for patients with colon cancer
...ompared rates of complications, cancer recurrence, length of time patients were cancer-free and the overall survival in both sets of patients. All patients in the study had been diagnosed with potentially curable cancer of the colon. Each patient was randomly assigned to undergo either the minimally invasiv...