New study in Pediatrics shows nitric oxide therapy for newborns effective and cost saving
... jugular vein and putting the baby on a heart-lung machine to oxygenate the blood. Besides being invasive, the procedure has the potential to cause severe complications. Nitric oxide, by contrast, is administered as an inhaled gas, and has few potential complications. But while hospital stays involving ECMO...A hot time for cold superconductors
...nsive wires by the private sector could put an MRI machine in every doctor's office and even in veterinary hospitals." Today's MRI machines use niobium-alloy wires that are much more expensive than MgB2 wires and require costly liquid helium refrigeration to maintain superconducting properties. Los Alamos sc...New study in Pediatrics shows nitric oxide therapy for newborns effective and cost saving
... jugular vein and putting the baby on a heart-lung machine to oxygenate the blood. Besides being invasive, the procedure has the potential to cause severe complications. Nitric oxide, by contrast, is administered as an inhaled gas, and has few potential complications. But while hospital stays involving ECMO...'Science' showcases research on forgetting
... in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine that produces images of brain tissue and function. From these images, researchers can determine which parts of the brain are in use for different tasks. After this phase was completed, Anderson tested the students' memory for all of the word pairs an...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
...oom time and the robot itself, Ohye feels that the machine will more than offset its costs over time by reducing the time a child spends in the hospital after surgery, the complications he or she will face during recovery, and his or her parents' time away from work. Ohye and U-M pediatric cardiac surgery co...Baby and coated aspirin equally effective in thinning of blood when taken in combination with Plavix
...iplatelet effects of aspirin were measured using a machine about the size of a coffee maker - called a PFA 100 - which can quickly, easily and reliably measures platelet function in response to aspirin. "Results showed that taking any dose or formulation of aspirin along with Plavix provides an enhanced blo...Patients needing dialysis prefer 'peritoneal' method rather than hemodialysis
...arry out the prescribed treatment using a dialysis machine under the direction of a physician. With this technique, insertion of special catheters or placement of grafts in the blood vessels is needed. In contrast, peritoneal dialysis involves inserting a special catheter into the abdominal cavity, and dial...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...System--GPS John Gibbon (posthumous): Heart-lung machine Lloyd Hall (posthumous): Food preservation techniques Elias Howe (posthumous): Sewing machine Charles Kelman: Cataract eye surgery Bernard Oliver, Claude Shannon (posthumous): Pulse Code Mod...OHSU receives grant to study evolutionary computing for biomedical image analysis
...ng, Ph.D., who specializes in image processing and machine learning, will look at ways computer programs can ...thms. Her research centers on intelligent systems, machine learning, evolutionary computation and complex systems. She joined OGI's Department of Computer Scie...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...ecially faces, in work that could lead to improved machine vision systems, diagnostics for certain neurological conditions and more. Look at a photo of people running a marathon. The lead runners' faces are quite distinct, but we can also make out the faces of those farther in the distance. Zoom in on that d...'Off-pump' bypass surgery has similar outcomes, lower cost, than conventional bypass surgery
.... During a conventional CABG surgery, a heart-lung machine allows the heart to stop and pumps blood throughout the body, and keeps the body stabilized. Concerns remains about the technical difficulty of off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), including the possibility of imprecise grafting and incomplete r...Lower temperatures improve outcomes after bypass surgery
...ents." In a typical bypass procedure, a heart-lung machine takes over from the heart and pumps blood througho...rarily stopped heart. Additionally, the heart-lung machine cools the circulating blood in order to reduce the metabolic needs of the brain and other vital orga...Magnetic treatment may help people with spinal cord injuries
...rapy but instead of repeating a physical task, the machine activates the surviving nerves to strengthen their connections." The researchers from Imperial College London, the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, UK, and Charing Cross Hospital, UK, tested rTMS on four patients with incom...Speech recognition experts at OGI School of Science & Engineering receive nearly $700,000 in grants
...ix, there are certain interactions between man and machine that need to be more thoroughly developed so the computer does what it is supposed to do and the person running the computer doesn't get frustrated with the machine. Ideally, computers should be trained to work with and for people, not the other way ...Breathing problems during sleep may affect mental development in infants and young children
... cases, or for children who cannot have surgery, a machine known as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which forces air into the air passages while the patient is sleeping, can be as effective in children as it is in adults with sleep apnea. The health consequences associated with SDB in children ar...Tar measurements on cigarette packets are misleading
...elivery of cigarettes is routinely measured with a machine and, with the exception of the United States, stat...t otherwise have quit the habit. They believe that machine measured figures for tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide should be removed from the packet, and a rea...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...e heart and lungs while surgeons make repairs. The machine must be primed with donor blood because babies do ... have enough of their own blood to supply both the machine and their tiny bodies. Blood priming of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine is not necessary for adul......ew hybrid procedure doesn't require the heart-lung machine or stopping the infant's heart. This reduces the risk of neurological damage." The new procedure is conducted in a catherization lab, rather than an operating room. The chest is opened briefly to gain access to the heart and the pulmonary arteries (...