Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer Now At Sick Kids
...se has a 1-ton unit) isused to maintain a constant room temperature. Its independent power supply isbacked up by two UPS units that weigh 800 pounds each. The $4.2 million supercomputer arrived at the hospital in January and took sixweeks to install. It is now ready to begin its work. "The acquisition of ......because, asthis study shows, IVIG lowers emergency room and hospital use by patients withsevere asthma. Glucocorticoids reduce inflammation in the lungs. IVIG is an antibodythat is removed from the plasma portion of blood and is concentrated for use asa medication. IVIG can regulate the immune/inflammato...Oregon's Terminally Ill Patients More Likely to Have End-Of-Life Choices Respected, Study Finds
...personnel, emergencymedical technicians, emergency room staff, physicians and others. "Other regions of the country have not had this kind of across-the-boardcommitment of resources to improving care of the dying," said Tolle. "Ourresearch clearly shows that years of hard work by Oregonians on th......of total resource use. Treatment such as operating room charges, medication, blood products andrespiratory services averaged 33 percent. Co-authors of the study are Patricia Katz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine andhealth policy; John Lake, MD, former medical director of the UCSF LiverTransplant program,...Laser Pointer Helps Parkinson's Patients Take Next Step
...times aday, making almost any simple movement from room to room a laborious task takingseveral minutes. Patient Stan Clark of Old Forge, a small town in nor...Circumcisions In Doctors' Offices As Safe As Those In Hospitals
...rcumcised in an operating room under general anesthesia. The circumcisions took ... stay (7). Why those in the operating room group hadnot been circumcised wasn't known since patient chartsoften ...UI Researcher Shows Economic Benefits Of Hospitals Fast-Tracking Patients Vary
...s wake up more quickly and can leave the operating room sooner. Inaddition, the patients might not have to stay in the recovery room as long. If ahospital pays its ambulatory surgery center staff an hourly rate and thefast-tracking r...... gains in the "medicosurgical" era can'tallow more room for the proven gifts of more compassionate caregiving. As the book reaches the present day, Risse offers a chapter chronicling thesuperb skill, insight and persistence of the pioneers in the field of organtransplantation. He follows three young women......leted on Dec. 2. "We were both in the surgery prep room around 7 or 7:30 that morning," saidScarlett. "And I knew that it would be fine. We prayed together and she told methat she hoped that I would be OK. I told her that I would if she would be OK." After the operations and the two patients had been tak...Cutting-Edge Discoveries In Transplantation To Be Revealed At National Medical Conference
...en Exclusion Criteria for Organ Donation A press room will be available for media representatives in the Sheraton ChicagoHotel, Parlor D, on Sunday, May 16, from noon to 5 p.m. and Monday, May 17,through Wednesday, May 19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The media can access the technicalprogram including links to abs...Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
...pic. And of children who had slept at night with a room light on before age2, 55 percent were myopic - mor...as 8 - were asked whether their childrenslept with room lighting, with a night light, or in darkness before the age of2. They were also asked to report on t......rk is a youth symphony percussionist and emergency room volunteer. Shefences, dances hula and participates in church activities, but spends most ofher spare time these days as a medical research assistant in the UH John A.Burns School of Medicine's Geriatric Medicine Program. Her honors thesisexplores ind...NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
... all the patients coming into a hospital emergency room with chest pain, onlyabout 40 percent can be immediately diagnosed with heart attack using standardtesting. The majority of patients must undergo a number of tests or furtherhospitalization to reach a conclusive diagnosis. MRI may shorten the time n...Risk factors for women remain high one year after heart surgery
...antrisk factors that brought them to the operating room in the first place. Lulled perhaps by a false sense of security or lacking good risk factorinformation, "women showed substantial risk factors a year after their surgery,making them vulnerable to further heart disease," according to Jerilyn A...Using spatial illusion to learn how the brain processes sound
...noiseis coming from. Try the same experiment in a room full of cats and you'll seethe feline version of a...xperiments, human volunteers stood in a soundproof room surroundedby 14 loudspeakers and listened to a random series of broad-band and narrow-bandtones, whi...Early to rise: Research offers clues to older people's sleep habits
... phase. These includeactivity, exposure to indoor room light, travel, illness and genetics. In olderpeople, the circadian pacemaker may not be any different than that of theiryounger counterparts, but something, perhaps light exposure, is interruptingsleep and throwing off the sleep-wake cycle. Their s...Information technology is key to decreasing surgery costs, UI researcher finds
...d that achievingfinancial savings in the operating room could mean patients in the future willhave to wait...sing informationtechnologies to increase operating room staff productivity, said FranklinDexter, M.D., Ph.D., UI associate professor of anesthesia. Articles...UI study indicates many older adults still not receiving recommended vaccinations
...population. I think our results show that there is room for improvement." The researchers studied 787 Iowa adults, selected at random from both rural andurban areas, who were age 65 or older and who had one or more chronic conditionssuch as arthritis, diabetes, heart or lung disease, or hypertension.Parti......eam is for the International Space Station to make room forongoing studies of immunology and other complex life processes, all of whichseem to return to normal once a space traveler has landed. Except the swollenheads, he quipped....