Cool therapy reduces brain injury and death from oxygen loss in newborns
...egree water. Both groups received standard newborn intensive care including monitoring of vital signs. When the infants were examined to assess their outcome at 18 to 22 months of age, 44 percent of those in the group treated with hypothermia developed a moderate to severe disability or had died, as compare...Cold treatment protects against infant disability and death from oxygen loss
... providing fluids intravenously, and other newborn intensive care supportive therapies. The infants were cooled...up and the control group received standard newborn intensive care including monitoring of vital signs and were watched carefully for signs of organ dysfunction. ...Healthgrades study: New hospital ratings show wide 'quality chasm'
...ically ill patients, called intensivists, staffing intensive care units (ICUs). The annual HealthGrades study rates each nonfederal hospital with a one-, three- or five-star rating indicating poor, average or excellent outcomes in each of 28 medical categories. Taken together, the ratings produce the following...Guidelines needed to help doctors treat different types of insecticide self-poisoning
...e fatality often greater than 10% in even the best intensive care units. Part of the problem is that there is little evidence on which to base management. But another problem is that all organophosphorus insecticides have been grouped together, with no attempt being made to develop specific management protocol...Lack of specialist care for head injuries costing lives
...e head injury. Unfortunately, the current lack of intensive care places in neurosurgical units means that this is often not possible."...WA team uses baby tooth to solve death mystery
... laid to rest many of the family's fears. "Despite intensive investigation, the little girl's condition went undiagnosed by doctors all through her life, so the fact that the cause of her illness and death was finally pinpointed, gave the family the information they needed to understand what had happened," sai...Clinical trial in China to test whether early blood pressure reduction improves stroke outcomes
...na this month, will determine the effects of early intensive blood pressure lowering on death and disability in...safety and effects of a management policy of early intensive blood pressure lowering on death and disability, compared to current less intensive, guideline-based...Mayo Clinic: Sinusitis is common yet often overlooked cause of chronic cough
...iagnosed is causing the cough." Dr. Lim advocates intensive treatment for sinusitis in chronic coughers. "If the cough doesn't go away, it's probably the wrong diagnosis or it has not been treated adequately," he says. "If diagnosed correctly and then treated aggressively, it will go away. You can always repe......ethods, but Hayward notes that doctors in hospital intensive care units use it all the time to calculate patients' prognoses. And health Web sites, including some from the National Institutes of Health, include self-administered questionnaires that allow people to estimate their risk of heart attacks and breas...New RSV treatment for at-risk infants under study
...6-721-2331. Study participants from MCG's neonatal intensive care unit will get their first shot before they leave the hospital then return to the Continuity Clinic at the Children's Medical Center in subsequent months to see Dr. Bunyapen and get the four remaining shots. In between visits, Ms. Holloway will c...Womb needed for proper brain development
...age of gestation. However, after about 10 weeks in intensive care, the second measurement of the premature babi...very premature infants who are treated in neonatal intensive care units early in life....Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant
...e considered for a heart transplants. Most were in intensive care units. "Despite the shortcomings of the device, the results of this trial speak to our ability to improve the functionality for a very sick group of patients," Rogers said. The major complications of LVADs, said the researchers, include stroke, ...Support system helps overcome barriers for nursing home residents in need of cataract surgery
...ct received surgery," they write. "In contrast, an intensive effort to support residents in the process led to one third (24 of 77 persons) being scheduled for surgery, all but two of whom had the surgery," they continue. Residents with cataract--regardless of nursing home assignment--tended to be older, were ...Patients regain cognitive function after radiation for brain tumors
...20 patients studied were submitted to a battery of intensive cognitive tests measuring intelligence, memory, learning and attention span to establish a baseline score to compare to future results. Following radiation therapy, patients were re-evaluated at 18-month intervals over the next five years. While the ...Aspirin reduces stroke risk in women, not men
... the results of other studies, should lead to more intensive research into the differences between the genders when it comes to cerebrovascular disease and drugs use to prevent it, the researchers said. They emphasized that both healthy men and women who can tolerate aspirin should be taking the medication, si...Aggressive lowering of LDL level shows limited benefit for patients with previous heart attack
...es, incremental benefit was demonstrated with more intensive lowering of LDL-C to well below 100 mg/dL. Anothe...sive Lipid Lowering (IDEAL) study examined whether intensive lowering of LDL-C with atorvastatin at the highest recommended dose would be more beneficial compare...Scientists work to discover how music training affects the brain
...o scientifically examine whether music conductors' intensive training gives them special skills at locating sounds. For example, conductors must be very adept at not only identifying errors, but also in precisely identifying the errant sound both in time and space. This was one of the first studies to examine...Age alone influences risk of death and disease for octogenarians after heart surgery
...r gastrointestinal tract complications, returns to intensive care, or intraoperative complications--such as heart attack, hemorrhage, and irregular heartbeat. "Like other investigators, we found that octogenarians were at higher risk for postoperative death," the authors write. "However, our results show that...Time is right for vets and doctors to debate food policy
...ntrol the diseases and other welfare concerns that intensive farming inadvertently promotes. Doctors, in turn, deal both with farmers' health, as they struggle to remain in business, and with the public's health, damaged by the modern diet. There is also considerable cultural pressure to rethink food policy. M...Radiation treatment prolonged liver cancer patients' lives, U-M study finds
...directly to the liver. The combination delivers an intensive punch directly to the tumors while limiting exposure to normal tissue. Of the 128 patients treated, median survival was 15.8 months, significantly longer than traditional survival rates for patients with these types of tumors. Results of the study ap...