Bridge Medical experts speak at Atlanta pharmacy conference
...y, "... except where it can do thegreatest good -- saving lives." Bridge Executive Director, Clinical Services, Barbara Trohimovich,RPh, BSPharm, will speak daily on using barcoding to preventmedication errors (AmerisourceBergen Booth 152). The former hospitalpharmacist will join other Bridge clinicians......ngs could increase the number of organs available, saving the lives of people who die waiting for a transplant. There is currently a global shortage of healthy organs available for transplant operations. In the UK alone approximately 5000 people are waiting for organ transplants. Most donated organs come fr...Economic evaluation shows add-on therapy with Keppra(r) is a cost-effective alternative
...adjunctive treatment with Keppra results in a cost saving of £6527 per seizure free patient per year1. Thus, when epilepsy surgery is considered in the model, the effectiveness of levetiracetam and the cost of avoided epilepsy surgeries offset the acquisition costs of Keppra. The resounding conclusion...U-M study: Physicians perceive health care cost savings line pockets of insurance companies
... finds that many physicians think their efforts at saving money don't directly impact patients. Physicians ...over another, they're going to ask who benefits by saving money. If the doctors knew that extra money would go straight to the patient's pocket, it would be c...Life-saving imaging techniques developed at Oxford University
...ave developed two new imaging techniques with life saving potential in the medical field. They have achieved important and measurable improvements in image quality that will increase the accuracy of diagnosis of serious diseases and defects. Echocardiographic Sequence Analysis Subject movement during ca...Physics and medicine in San Diego
...in earlier detection of breast cancer, which means saving lives. Boone ( john.boone@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu ) expects that the X-ray dose for his CT process should not exceed the dose used in routine mammography. He expects the breast CT scanner to undergo phase-2 clinical trials sometime next year. To repeat:...Study: Couric's colonoscopy caused cross-country climb in colon cancer checks
...a screening test that has been proven effective at saving lives, but goes unused by millions of Americans at high risk of colon cancer. "This test, which requires healthy people to undergo an invasive, uncomfortable and often embarrassing exam, especially needed a celebrity advocate to reduce the stigma and...Depression doubles risk of death after bypass surgery
... a low-cost and relatively easy way of potentially saving lives." Because bypass surgery, which has been per... for more than 30 years, has been so successful in saving lives, past studies with small samples have had so few deaths that it has been difficult for researc...One use every seven years makes automated external defibrillators a good buy
...ity of Michigan evaluated the value -- in terms of saving lives and the necessary costs to rescue people with cardiac arrest -- of installing defibrillators in various public locations. The team found that a defibrillator was a good investment if the specific location was expected to have at least one cardi...Millions wasted on blood pressure tablets
...ased on conservative estimates. The potential for saving is likely to be considerably higher, and may be over US$1billion per year in the US," write the researchers. To produce these estimates, the researchers used sales, prescription and survey data to estimate the number of people in each country that we...Improved procurement could more than double availability of life-saving transplant organs
...sses the situation can mean the difference between saving a life through transplantation and losing a potential donor. Family resistance to organ donation is the primary reason that potential donors do not donate. According to the study, OPOs have an efficiency rate of between 20 and 80 percent, with an ave...New program establishes distinguished scholar in thrombosis
...ranslate into improvement in clinical practice and saving lives. "The Distinguished Scholar program makes it possible for a talented specialist to develop groundbreaking work that can bring a new approach to treating people with pulmonary embolism," said Warren Czerniak, general manager, Organon Sanofi-Syn...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November 2003 (first issue)
...eduction in direct and indirect health care costs, saving $6,462 per patient. The study results appear in the first issue for November 2003 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Decision analysis points up best treatment strategy for v...CT scans find tiny bladder, kidney & urinary cancers
...rinary tracts of high-risk patients -- potentially saving them from many additional tests, and from delayed detection and treatment. And the detailed imaging scan can be done using modern CT (computed tomography) machines now found in many large hospitals. That's the message that University of Michigan Hea...Call for outright smoking ban in UK
...es in the UK became smokefree, 300 000 would quit, saving 150 000 lives. Tobacco kills 42 million annually worldwide, and is estimated to kill over 10 million a year by the late 2020s. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, and cigarettes are the most toxic and carcinogenic means of delivering nicotine. Calli...Pharmacists play role in cholesterol control
...an prevent just a few of those procedures we'll be saving money," he said. "Pharmacists are well-trained and under used, and with the well-documented shortage of physicians in the country, turning to pharmacists is one way to help alleviate this problem." ...Risperdal(R) Consta(R) significantly reduces the need for institutional psychiatric care
...respectively. The study showed a mean annual cost saving to the Swedish health care system of approximately 3,500 to 6,300 per patient can be achieved following treatment with risperidone long acting injection (dependant on prescribed dose of either 50mg or 25 mg). Risperdal Consta is the first newer-gener...Patients should be consulted before dialysis treatment begins
...nment more than $15 billion per year, require life saving therapy to replace the normal function of the kidney, according to the researchers. Peritoneal dialysis involves infusing fluid into the patient's abdomen through a catheter and uses the patient's tissues to filter toxins and excess fluid from the bl...Hospitals following heart attack guidelines have better outcomes
...monstrated the effectiveness of these therapies in saving lives. The guidelines focus on giving suspected heart attack patients anti-platelet medications, heparin, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (clot inhibitors) or beta-blockers within the first 24 hours of admission, as well as prescribing such drugs as...Novel prostate cancer marker may lead to earlier diagnosis and fewer repeat bioposies
...ncer earlier, before it is discoverable by biopsy, saving patients the fear and stress of repeat procedures and enabling us to treat the disease sooner." Dr. Getzenberg explained that EPCA is a marker protein that indicates the earliest changes that occur in cells during the development of cancer. In the...