Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...didn't have systems to help the crew make sure the plane is ready for take-off. Similarly, Get With The Guidelines provides a kind of check list to review while patients are being treated, and especially before they are discharged from the hospital," he said. GWTGStroke uses inter-hospital collaborative ...Background 'DWI' checks effective
...ed (DWI) are 43 percent more likely to crash their plane than pilots with no history of DWI, according to a new study of more than 300,000 pilot records by researchers at Johns Hopkins. The Hopkins findings, published in the January issue of the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention, provide strong eviden...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...er conditions are two key characteristics of fatal plane crashes in general aviation where alcohol consumpt... The Hopkins team found that most alcohol-related plane crashes, 52 percent, occurred during nighttime hours, between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. In contrast, most n...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
...a naval pilot is not combat but landing his or her plane on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier. The safety of pilot and crew relies on the right information stimulating the correct action. The same general issues also apply to road vehicles."...Coronal reformatting of axial images from 16-MDCT helps stage ovarian cancer
...detector computed tomography) scanner in a coronal plane serves as a useful adjunct in the staging of ovarian cancer, says a new study by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. The study included 18 patients with ovarian cancer who had been imaged with MDCT and had their axial image...Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
...ith radio frequency waves as they pass through the plane of the MRI scan. Since all other tissues surroundi...es protons in blood cells as they pass through the plane of the scan," Judd explained. "They are still excited as they flow downstream and the scanner can de...Sepsis drug also protects brain cells
...ch as a panicked airline crew might react as their plane plunges toward the ocean. In the brain, the process results in high levels of chemicals that kill cells and are responsible for a great deal of brain damage from stroke, brain injury, and Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. The team showed th...... seen on any ordinary flight: a wing flexing as my plane tilts down towards the surface of the Atlantic. Although the fact that I am floating in my seat as I observe this demonstrates that this is no ordinary flight and the Airbus is no ordinary aircraft. This is the final day of the 35th ESA Parabolic Fl...Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...' Airbus, billed by its operator Novespace as 'the plane that removes gravity'. The aircraft has been specially strengthened to fly parabolic arcs enabling researchers to carry out experiments in weightlessness without going into space. Last week saw the start of ESA's 35th Parabolic Flight Campaign. Twel...UCLA, RAND researchers help men with prostate cancer
...ould help answer questions like 'Should I get on a plane and fly out to UCLA for this procedure or can I get comparable care here at home?'" Researchers looked at surgery and external beam radiation treatment in assembling the quality-of-care indicators. Brachytherapy, the implantation of radioactive seeds...Chemist works to prevent undesirable side effects in synthetic drugs
... If polarized light is shone through a sample, the plane of the light will be rotated one way for one hand and the opposite way by the same number of degrees for the other hand. Crawford is working on computer models to compute that rotation accurately. "At present, we don't have the ability to compute r...Enzyme replacement therapy found to effectively treat patients with Fabry disease
... was missing. The next thing he knew, he was on a plane to Los Angeles from his hometown in Salinas, California to take part in the clinical trial. Since then, Raul commutes every two weeks to receive treatment. He says that he is once again exercising without pain and leads as normal life as anyone els...Bicycle handlebars pose serious health risk to children
... bicycle and fall. The front wheel rotated into a plane perpendicular to the child's body. The child landed on the end of the handlebar, resulting in serious abdominal or pelvic organ injuries. Common injuries in the Pediatrics study were splenic, kidney, liver and pancreatic lacerations and contusions. ......ase or stroke who were subsequently subjected to a plane flight of more than 10 hours in duration. Study participants were randomly assigned to receive either 400 mg of aspirin in one daily dose for three days (starting 12 hours before their flight), a single weight-adjusted dose (0.1 ml per 10 Kgs) of e...Gender differences in general aviation crashes
...ical failure, running out of fuel, and landing the plane with the landing gear up were among the factors more likely with males, while stalling was more likely with females. The majority of the crashes 95 percent for females and 88 percent for males involved at least one type of pilot error. Mishandling ...The latest flight jacket gives pilots a real feel for flying
...s the pilot sensory cues aboutthe direction of the plane instantly, without having to check the instrumentp...so, depending on thedirection of the plane. If the plane pitches 30 degrees to the left, forexample, the jacket-called the tactile stimulation awareness syst...... our teaching lab collection, I sectioned itin one plane and had digital photographs made of each section. Then for theother two planes, I glued the sections back together and resectioned them eachtime, taking digital images. The result, said Williams, was that Sylvius was based on images of the samebrain...Safe Water, Medicines, Insecticides Greatest Needs After Mitch
...has given $250,000 andis sending a C-130 transport plane with supplies to Honduras and El Salvadortoday. Across Central America and in southern Mexico, 10,001 people were dead,14,202 were missing and 2.78 million were homeless, according to figures....