Better communication between families, health care providers can reduce cost, length of stay in ICU
...I) patients use approximately half of all hospital intensive care unit (ICU) resources at a cost of an estimate... situations of patients and long stays in hospital intensive care units (ICUs), gaps in communication, misunderstandings and a lack of consensus between families...Gladstone Institutes ranks #1 in The Scientist survey of Best Places for Postdocs to Work
...t Mahley, MD, PhD. "Several years ago, we began an intensive upgrade of our postdoctoral program," adds Gladstone Institutes postdoctoral advisor and human resources manager John LeViathan, a member of the executive board of the National Postdoctoral Association. "The result has been an institutional culture o...How, not where, you die matters most to terminal patients
...ct began in 2004 and focuses on care in hospitals, intensive care units and home settings. This is one of five studies to be undertaken by the team. They will also examine how satisfied patients are with their care; how they make decisions about the kinds of treatments they receive at the end of life; the imp...Less-invasive technique has improved outcomes of aortic aneurysm repair
...AR required less recovery time in the hospital and intensive care unit. They were also less likely to be sent to a nursing home or other care facility after leaving the hospital. The improvement in results of AAA repair occurred despite the fact that the average patient age increased during the study period....Diabetics who control blood sugar today are more likely to have healthy feet and nerves tomorrow
...time but did not have the initial 5 year period of intensive blood sugar control. The study, published in the February issue of the journal Diabetes Care, involved 1,441 people with Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes. Although patients with the more common Type 2 form of diabetes were not involv...Intensive statin therapy may partially reverse plaque build-up in arteries
...ession demonstrates, for the first time, that very intensive cholesterol lowering with a statin drug can regres...ng treatment. Previous research had indicated that intensive statin therapy could prevent the progression of coronary atherosclerosis, or arterial plaque build-u...Very high-intensity statin therapy shows promise for inducing regression of coronary atherosclerosis
Patients treated with very intensive statin therapy lowered LDL-C levels on average by ...nclusions. For secondary prevention patients, very intensive statin therapy using 40 mg/d of rosuvastatin in patients with preexisting coronary disease reduced L...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, March 2006
..., Stamford, CT, analyzed the economic impact of an intensive glycemic management protocol by comparing the clinical outcomes of 800 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) prior to the established protocol, with 800 patients admitted to the ICU after the p...Hospitalized patients with schizophrenia more likely to have medical and surgical complications
...espiratory failure or sepsis to be admitted to the intensive care unit and to die. The team also found that the median length of hospital stay for patients with schizophrenia and adverse events was at least 10 days longer than the stay of schizophrenics without adverse events; and median hospital charges were ...Post-stent maintenance therapies questioned
...e trial results show the role of the combination - intensive clopidogrel pretreatment plus abciximab - during PCI for ACS. They will enable us to know whether patients with ACS or any subset of them can benefit from this combination. Dr. Kastrati will present the results of the "Prospective, Double Blind, Plac...Doctors in training improve skills via virtual patient
...thoscopes. In previous studies, Barrett found that intensive repetition vastly increased stethoscope proficiency among medical students. "This new technology allowed us to test the hypothesis that electronic stethoscopes can be used as patient simulators to provide the necessary repetition to improve proficien...Med students thrive in virtual classroom
...technical skill and thus could be mastered through intensive repetition. Based on his previous research, which found that repetition vastly improved students' accuracy, Barrett created and tested a virtual classroom. Through the web site, students downloaded various heart sounds, such as murmurs, and listened...Study to test drug's potential to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics
...llow-up exams for two years, and they will receive intensive diabetes care including insulin and dietary management," said Dr. Rodriguez....Innovative approach affords Binghamton University researchers clearer view of autism
... Institute for Child Development, is heading up an intensive research project to learn how children - with and without autism - interact with the world around them. Using a combination of a state-of-the-art eye tracking system, miniaturized psychophysiological monitoring and multiple computers for high-speed p...No-hands origami: New DNA self-assembly makes more complex structures, more easily
...e fabrication with DNA. For example, he doesnt use intensive computing to design the shapes, though theyre more complicated than ever. Neither does he purify his starting materials, nor assemble them step-by-step into the final structure. Instead, hes developed a one-pot method that produces more intricate str...Research team sweeps the board with intensive care innovations
...lop innovative, software-based products to support intensive care. The students then entered their ideas into Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a technological 'Olympic games' which sets top young technologists from around the globe on the world's toughest problems. The theme for the awards this year was "Imagine a wo...The Lancet calls for independent scrutiny of the TGN1412 trial
...eiving the test drug, all six men were admitted to intensive care with a severe inflammatory reaction and multi-organ failure. Two remain critically ill. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), who authorised the trial, told The Lancet that the trial protocol specifies that TGN1412 sho...St. Jude develops more affordable ALL follow-up test
... to identify patients who might be cured with less intensive treatment approaches. This will decrease the toxicity and the cost of treatment. Hence, we anticipate that the use of our new technique will increase the number of children who can be treated, and reduce the number of children who suffer fatal infect...UK plans for pandemic flu don't go far enough
...cts that between four and five times the number of intensive care beds available in most general hospitals in the UK would be required to meet demand at the peak of the epidemic. Decisions will be difficult and will require an unprecedented degree of cooperation between everyone caring for these patients, he c...Daughters of Indian immigrants continue trend of giving birth to small babies
...gher risk of fetal distress and often require more intensive medical care and longer hospital stays after birth." In addition, unusually small babies are known to be at higher risk for a variety of medical problems in adulthood, including diabetes, hypertension and an increased risk of heart disease - conditio...