Study shows minimally invasive lung surgery has low risk with same results as open surgery
... than five percent of patients needed to go to the intensive care unit, and the median length of hospital stay was three days. All operations were performed between February 1992 and December 2004. "About 20 percent of our patients go home from the hospital on either the first or second day following lobectomy...Conscientious objection in medicine should not be tolerated
...eir values, they should not be doctors. Imagine an intensive care doctor refusing to treat people over the age of 70 because he believes such patients have had a fair innings. Or imagine an epidemic of bird flu or other infectious disease that a specialist decided she valued her own life more than her duty to ...New faster screening test for MRSA
...s and reduced transmission rates in one of the two intensive care units (ICUs) studied. Stephan Harbarth and colleagues from Geneva University Hospitals used qMRSA, a new screening method that identifies MRSA's DNA in patient swabs, to test 1,053 patients on admission to the medical ICU and the surgical ICU in...ELBW infants appear to be reaching functional outcomes as young adults similar to NBW infants
...the article. Survivors from the early postneonatal intensive care era have only now reached young adulthood. Although some aspects of longer-term outcomes on VLBW young adults have been reported in a few studies, details of certain functional outcomes of former ELBW infants at young adulthood are unknown. Saro...Common reflux treatment linked to life threatening bowel infection in premature infants
.... However, the practice is widespread in neonatal intensive care units around the country. Physicians prescribe H2 blockers to premature infants for several reasons, Dr. Higgins said. If premature infants are experiencing a lot of acid reflux, physicians might prescribe the drugs to prevent damage to the eso...Rockabye baby: Research shows gentle singing soothes sick infants
...s found that music therapy can help sick babies in intensive care maintain normal behavioural development, maki...to see what impact music therapy had on infants in intensive care. The project studied 40 infants, divided into three groups: those hospitalised and receiving mu...First simultaneous cochlear implant operation for WA
...he rehabilitation process takes up to 12 months of intensive mapping (programming the cochlear device) and exercises from our Audiologist, Katrise Eager, who will help Danny learn to hear sounds through the implant," he said. Danny's father Lex said the operation was a huge boost for his son who had been devas...HIV risks reduced when mothers teach daughters about disease
...ctice sexual abstinence. Following the 12 weeks of intensive training, mothers brought their daughters to the group and shared with them what they learned about HIV. "We wanted to teach the mothers separately, so the daughters could see them as educators," Dancy said. "The mothers were very enthusiastic about...Metabolic acidosis associated with an increased mortality rate
...h lactate and SIG should be carefully monitored in intensive care units (ICUs). In the largest study of its kind, Kyle Gunnerson from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, selected patients admitted to the University of Pittsburgh M...Study finds room for improvement in angioplasty, shows what can be done to cut risks
...ood transfusions. But five years later, after the intensive quality-improvement project was under way, the 5,901 patients treated at the same five hospitals in that year received much better and more uniform care, including much higher rates of preventive medication use, less use of heparin, and more appropri...Blood test can predict long-term risk of death in patients with shortness of breath
...sis, allowing us to identify patients needing more intensive treatment and follow-up," he adds. "The next logical step is to evaluate treatment interventions for those with higher NT-proBNP levels to see if we can reduce their considerable risk for death." Januzzi is currently directing a randomized clinical...Morphine and topical anaesthesia effective in treating procedural pain in newborn infants
...l included 132 ventilated newborns in the neonatal intensive care units at SickKids and Mount Sinai Hospital, both located in Toronto, Canada, between June 2000 and July 2005. The amount of pain was determined by measuring the proportion of time the newborns displayed facial grimacing (brow bulge) during diffe...Rice, M. D. Anderson win funds for bench to bed training
...derson and Rice faculty, and they will complete an intensive clinical cancer internship that rotations at M. D. Anderson in diagnostic imaging, surgery, radiotherapy, internal medicine, lab medicine, pathology, bone marrow transplantation and cancer prevention. The students will also carry out a translational ...Drug use linked to brain hemmorhage in young adults
... the low mortality rate in younger ICH patients to intensive neurocritical care management at Tampa General. The protocol includes decreasing intracranial pressure and using drains to prevent hydrocephalus, mechanical ventilation, sepsis control, blood pressure control and cooling. The younger patients came i...Stressed-out women more likely to miscarry early
...fore they become pregnant. That is extremely labor intensive and expensive," Nepomnaschy said. In the Guatemalan study, 22 pregnancies occurred in 16 women, and each woman's cortisol levels were measured against their own baseline levels. Researchers found that 90 percent of women, whose ages ranged from 18 t...Corticosteroids associated with poor outcomes, death in the trauma intensive care unit
Patients in the trauma intensive care unit who receive corticosteroids may have more infections, longer stays in intensive care or on a ventilator and a higher death rate than those who do not, according to a study in the F...Most effective anthrax treatment: VA-Stanford study finds
...d 100 percent. Many assumed that access to modern intensive care units and more powerful antibiotics made the ...on in bioterrorism planning. "Even with our modern intensive care, once you've reached the advanced stage of this disease, you're probably going to die. That's w...UVa scientists hot on trail of therapies for deadly lung failure
...ood-oxygen levels. Up to 30 percent of patients in intensive care units can die from ARDS. There is no current therapy other than general life support and putting patients on a breathing machine. If they survive, many people face long-term lung problems. Common causes of ARDS are pneumonia, septic shock, traum...New study says heart health and lifestyle are associated with maintaining brain health as we age
... that there would be great value now in conducting intensive study of each of the potential risk factors identified in the survey. More About the Research The article is the report of a committee to the NIH's Cognitive and Emotional Health Project (CEHP). The CEHP's goal is to assess the state of research lo...Parents of children with rare diseases benefit from intensive support programmes
...ds. "Those who showed the most benefit from the intensive family competence programme were fathers, full-time working parents and parents of younger children" says Dr Dellve. "Our results underline the importance of professional teams working with mothers and father to improve their knowledge and skills wh...