Number of breaths given during CPR may be linked to survival
...sociation's recommendation of 12 to 15 breaths per minute when treating cardiac arrest victims. "The overall survival rate in the United States from cardiac arrest is about 5 percent," said lead author Tom P. Aufderheide, M.D., professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwauk...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...es of data on each patient, during which it took a minute or two to train them to the task. This suggests that as clinical testing progresses, and we use electrode arrays that are implanted for a long period of time, we could achieve a workable control system for external devices," he said. While other rese...St. Jude Medical announces CRT patients showed improvement in the RHYTHM ICD study
... (p=0.048 and p=0.009, respectively), with the six minute walk test demonstrating a strong trend toward significance (p=0.07). The study evaluated resynchronization effectiveness, defibrillation system efficacy, defibrillation system safety and left ventricle lead performance. "This is a significant prospe...St. Jude Medical announces PAVE and DINAMIT clinical trial results
...rd right-ventricular pacing as measured by the six minute walk test. In these same patients, biventricular pacing also produced a statistically significant improvement in functional capacity over standard right-ventricular pacing as measured by peak VO2 and exercise duration. BV-paced patients experien...New bill 'will ultimately fail the public'
...iving patients are examined each year. If just one minute of staff time was taken for each sample, this would equate to 1,339 full time jobs - comparable to the entire staff of a medium sized NHS hospital. But as yet, the Government has allocated no money for this task at all. Other problems surround tissue...Sandia-developed foam likely would stop SARS virus quickly, Sandia/Kansas State team shows
...0 formulation fully inactivated BCV samples in one minute or less. The team now is pursuing funding to conduct similar tests on the SARS coronavirus and hopes to test other emerging viruses such as the avian influenza virus (bird flu). Recent research suggests that the SARS virus can remain active on contam...UT Southwestern researchers discover first effective treatment for exercise disorder
...bo reached a mean peak heart rate of 156 beats per minute and an excessive level of perceived exertion during the seventh minute of exercise, then achieved a spontaneous second wind and a drop in heart rate by 35 beats per minute...Emergency cardiac monitoring strategy tested in ambulances
...y department of the receiving hospital. "Every minute that heart cells are deprived of blood flow, they are dying," says Barbara Drew, RN, PhD, the study's principal investigator and a professor of physiological nursing in the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. "Once heart cells ...New ultrafast MRI benefits stroke patients
...drugs directly to the clot in the brain, but every minute counts. Therefore, it is essential that stroke patients be diagnosed quickly, so that treatment can begin. Computed tomography (CT) is the usual method for diagnosing stroke, because it only takes a few minutes, compared to 20 minutes with convention...Natural scenes calm drivers more than city views, study finds
...ewing the scenic parkway condition worked almost a minute and a half longer on the unsolvable anagrams than did the respondents who watched the other videos," Cackowski said. "This suggests that the scenic views of this video had a restorative, calming effect on those who watched it. If these people were th...Automatic CPR device dramatically improves cardiac arrest survival in Stanford animal study
...al CPR, the device can deliver 80 compressions per minute for up to an hour over a broader expanse of the chest than the concentrated area of a human hand. "The impact is going to be much more than defibrillators found in airports and on planes," said Rezaee, senior author of the study. He explained that no...Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
...table and had heart rates higher than 90 beats per minute measured after they had been lying down for 20 minutes. These patients were offered propranolol, a common drug also known by its brand name, Inderal, which is often prescribed for tachycardia, high blood pressure or anxiety. Those who accepted the dr...... minutes. If the appointments were scheduled in 20 minute intervals, they could treat 50% more patients per ...how waiting times could be reduced if we stopped a minute to think."...Study shows that forgiveness can be taught
...ent is 4 and one half months after the six week 90 minute session forgiveness training ended. Largest study to date on the training and measurement of the effects of interpersonal forgiveness. Recruitment was for any unresolved interpersonal hurt that did not include a current experience of physical or s...NYU School of Medicine attracts a powerful MRI machine
...aging," and will enable researchers to distinguish minute amounts of metabolites in the brain, such as glutathione, taurine, and aspartate, as well as neurotransmitters used for neuronal communication, such as glutamate and gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA). Researchers are interested in characterizing d...Possible brain cancer-air pollution link to be studied
... lungs and even enter the bloodstream due to their minute size. "I believe the work we are initiating today will provide answers to important questions about brain cancer risk factors facing our children and future generations," Black concluded. Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, also a me...On the horizon of glucose monitoring: A review
...ensor takes measurements and displays values every minute over a three-day period. This method, which is still under investigation, requires only one fingerstick every 72 hours for calibration.Continuous and noninvasive glucose monitoring: "Patient preference clearly points toward a completely noninvasive m...Top-ups of naturally occurring gut hormone could help treat obesity
...h Centre at 8.30 am. They were then given a ninety minute infusion (placed on an intravenous drip) of either PYY3-36 or placebo (a saline solution). Two hours after the end of the infusion, where the volunteers did not know if they were receiving the PYY3-36 or the placebo, they were offered an unlimited bu...Scientists develop greater accuracy in recording babys heart rates in the womb
...ation, to study the heart rate of unborn babies in minute detail. The technique, reported in this months British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, will allow doctors to monitor the health of babies' hearts and obtain the full fetal ECG (fECG), particularly during high risk pregnancies, such as where t...Stanford research shows targeted DNA vaccine may reverse autoimmune disease
...howing how microarrays - glass slides spotted with minute amounts of the proteins against which the body may be reacting - can provide a profile of the antibodies' targets. Their current work, which appears in the September issue of Nature Biotechnology, takes the technology a step further and shows that th...