Sleep apnea treatment could save lives & money by reducing auto accidents, according to researchers
...ns with untreated sleep apnea perform as poorly on simulated steering and psychomotor reaction time tests as legally intoxicated individuals. "It is estimated that as many as 40 million Americans have undiagnosed sleep apnea," said the paper's senior author, Terence Davidson, M.D., professor of surgery, UCSD D...Patient safety gets boost with $10 million grant
...age Partners and Symbionix, among others. The new simulated action learning will complement traditional training with actual patients and will enable students and health professionals to learn in ways that eliminate risks to patients. Education tools will range from low-fidelity simulators to complex human p...Envisat Symposium report day 4: Assistance from space to combat hazards and natural disasters
...on, we overlaid a previously prepared pre-disaster simulated image with the ASAR-derived lake area, preparing a damage assessment map for distribution and use in the field during Triplex." Use of satellite imagery to coordinate disaster relief is hardly limited to training exercises, as Symposium participant...Domestic violence recognized but not always investigated by medical students
...dents were able to identify domestic violence in a simulated emergency department encounter. However, say the T...tify a victim of intimate partner violence using a simulated emergency department encounter." Simulated patient encounters are an increasingly utilized teachin...FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
...in, metoprolol, and enalapril) was investigated in simulated gastric fluid. The results suggest that precipita...furosemide, phenytoin, metoprolol and enalapril in simulated gastric fluid. However, it is recommended that compounds known to interact with antacids should not...Tuberculosis drug combined with virtual reality therapy is effective in treating fear of heights
...nts, followed by two virtual reality sessions that simulated standing in a rising glass elevator. Compared to subjects who took only placebo, those treated with DCS experienced a significant reduction in their fear of heights that was maintained for at least three months (the longest time tested) after conclud...Study finds computer vignette to be effective way to measure quality of physician practice
...Center (SFVAMC). The vignette -- which presents a simulated patient visit to the doctor via computer -- is an ...the standardized patient -- a trained actor with a simulated illness who visits a doctor unannounced and records the doctor's actions immediately after the visit...Data suggest ADDERALL XR significantly improved simulated driving in young adults with ADHD
...suggested that ADDERALL XR significantly improved simulated driving performance in young adults aged 19 to 25 years with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for up to 12 hours after taking the medication, as compared with placebo. In addition, ADDERALL XR significantly improved ADHD symptom contr...Brain imaging study of drunk drivers pinpoints neurological changes
.... The seven men and two women then "drove" using a simulated driving skill game. "What we found is that when people were really intoxicated, they drove like they were really intoxicated and in a real vehicle," Pearlson said. "They speeded up, especially on corners, where most people slow down, and crashed more...Brain remapping may be key to recovery from stroke
...n cells learned their new jobs. Dr. Mosier's study simulated a learning problem by having 17 healthy adults wear a synthetic glove with fiber-optic cables on their dominant hand. The glove translated hand movements into signals, which were sent to the computer and transformed into the two-dimensional position ...Jefferson scientists use gene therapy to rescue failing hearts in animals
...normal again. The researchers 12 weeks after they simulated a heart attack in the rats delivered the human S100A1 gene to the heart through the coronary arteries by injection of a genetically-modified common cold virus as a carrier. After about a week, they found the hearts began to work normally. In additio...New study shows how mad cow prions hitch a ride into intestine
...JD which is also caused by prions, the researchers simulated the human digestive process by subjecting the tissue to sequential treatment with digestive fluids as found in the human intestinal tract. They then studied how the surviving prions are absorbed by the intestine using a cell model. The prions were li...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...mals. In experiments in laboratory dishes, Kantor simulated a particular step in the brain development of deve...tending across a no-man's-land between the nerves' simulated origin and target. Preventing this interaction by adding an enzyme that destroys only CSPGs allowed ...LA BioMed Medical/Research briefs January 2005
... statin availability. The study was conducted in a simulated OTC setting and allowed consumers to purchase once-daily lovastatin 20 mg. The CUSTOM dataset includes >3,300 consumers who evaluated OTC lovastatin for potential purchase at study sites and follow-up information on purchasers for up to 6 months ...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...s likely to be different from their performance in simulated situations. But the authors believe that their results are significant and should encourage basic training to prevent unnecessary sudden cardiac deaths. They add, "enhancing [] public information, for example via television campaigns or other extensi...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...ar-end the pace car. Each participant drove four simulated 10-mile freeway trips lasting about 10 minutes eac...ayer and Drews combined the new accident data with simulated driving accidents in their earlier studies, they counted 12 rear-end collisions among 121 study part...Researchers model brain's electrical storm during a seizure
...ems that could be affected by random events. They simulated the hyperexcitation of neurons in a portion of the brain and found that the stimulus produced traveling waves of electrical activity. To test the accuracy of their model, the UC Berkeley researchers teamed up with Dr. Heidi Kirsch, assistant profess...Immersion in virtual world alleviates pain from injury
...ially designed to completely immerse the user in a simulated environment. Unlike other computer games, the game is played wearing a special headset with two small computer screens and a special sensor, which allows the player to interact with the game and feel a part of its almost dreamlike world. "Owing to it......s eye tracking with hearing and deaf students in a simulated classroom. The study, sponsored by the NSF's Research on Learning and Education program, seeks to understand how deaf students divide their attention between instructor, interpreter and a graphic display. Another study, conducted with a team includi...