For patients with severe lung injury, less is more
...s of patient care strategies currently used in the intensive care unit. The two studies that comprised the tria...reatment for ALI/ARDS. Patients are placed in the intensive care unit (ICU) and supported with mechanical ventilators (breathing machines) and intravenous fluid...International study launched testing new drug combination to cut cardiovascular disease
...ut a quarter, and recent studies suggest that more intensive LDL-lowering can produce extra benefits. Even so, the risk among patients who already have vascular disease remains high, but there is limited scope for lowering LDL cholesterol much more. So, the Oxford research team are taking a different approach ...Bone research in Space Symposium, June 2, IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis
...f osteoporosis." The Symposia culminates months of intensive preparation by the International Space Life Sciences Working Group (ISPLSWG), chaired by Dr. Ronald Zernicke, from the University of Calgary. Numerous international space agencies will participate, representing countries including Canada, the United ...Public needs to heighten awareness of dangers of elevated TVs that are larger, heavier
...e children were hospitalized, including two in the intensive care unit. Fourteen suffered head injuries and nine injured an arm or leg. More than one-third of cases were admitted to the hospital for stays ranging from one to four days, while the rest were treated and discharged. One case required surgery for a...Terminally ill patients continue to receive aggressive treatment at end of life
ATLANTA--The increasing use of chemotherapy and intensive hospital treatment for cancer patients in their la...t recent data showing that the differing levels of intensive treatment in different regions held up over several years. More and more people are receiving approp...Utah study shows minivans, trucks pose greater risk of backing over children in driveways
...uire hospitalization, surgery, and treatment in an intensive care unit than children backed over by cars. Previous reports have suggested high-profile vehicles produce a large blind spot behind them, but no studies in the United States have attempted to document the rate of injury by type of vehicle. The find...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for June 6, 2006
...ignificant number of unnecessary hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions, and deaths each year." An editorialist notes that this analysis was not able to fully account for the effects of disease severity, co-treatments, adherence to treatment, or racial profile on the risk of poor outcomes. The edito...Media availability: Long-term survival of heart attack patients with shock
...ed compared to about 20 percent of those receiving intensive medical care to stabilize their condition. The sam...rs). Another 150 patients were assigned to receive intensive medical therapy including clot-busting drugs with possible revascularization after 54 hours. "Early ...Study aims to cut deaths from severe infection in hospital wards
...ng condition which affects four in ten of Scottish intensive care patients. The project will measure the extent...ccessfully overcoming the infection. About half of intensive care unit patients with sepsis in the UK die from the infection, Researcher Dr Pam Warner said: "At ...MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec
... team, consisting of cardiologists, hepatologists, intensive care specialists, anesthesiologists, nurses, physiotherapists and Transplant Quebec coordinators. Combined heart-liver transplants are rare--only a few successful procedures have been performed in Canada, and this is the first in Quebec....Use of anti-depressant does not decrease risk of relapse for patients with anorexia nervosa
...93 patients with anorexia nervosa who had received intensive inpatient or day-program treatment and regained weight to a minimum body mass index (BMI) of 19.0. Participants were then randomly assigned to receive fluoxetine (n = 49) or placebo (n = 44) and were treated for up to 1 year as outpatients. The rese...Risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia cut significantly
...echanical ventilation or how long they had to stay intensive care unit. They also reported no change in intensive care unit survival rates. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Donald E...The right pathway to better health and science
...contributor to the economy and one of the most R&D intensive industries in Australia....Tracking computer-based error reports improves patient safety, Hopkins study finds
...tion errors among premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, and currently used system-wide for all pediatric patients(for more information, see http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/pages/news/archivedetails.cfm?newsid=172 ) Since 2004, Johns Hopkins has implemented a hospital-wide computer reporting s...Older blood associated with worse outcomes after repeat heart surgery
...ute respiratory distress and longer confinement to intensive care units, the researchers found. The findings ma...mortality, kidney damage and length of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital, we saw the rate of risk increase with each successive quartile," Bennett-Gue...Violence from male partners associated with serious health threats to pregnant women and newborns
...will be born clinically underweight and in need of intensive care. The paper appears in the July 2006 issue of ...percent more likely than other children to require intensive care upon birth. The researchers, led by Jay Silverman, assistant professor of society, human de...Anaesthetists need urgent guidance on patients who don't want to be resuscitated
...ts of medical practice by anaesthetists, including intensive and palliative care. While individual autonomy in these cases is often best served by a sensitive and detailed exploration of the patient's wishes by the doctors caring for them, it might be that some national guidance is needed. "The Council of...Biomarker reduces length of antibiotic treatment
...italized patients with CAP must be admitted to the intensive care unit, where 20 to 50 percent will ultimately die." For bacterial CAP, promptly initiating antibiotic therapy is commonly considered the key to survival, he added, "as a delay of more than 4 hours can be associated with increased mortality." ...Targeted melanoma education of high risk groups improves screening
An intensive educational intervention targeting siblings of recently diagnosed melanoma patients leads to sustained improvements in the rate of self skin-examination, according to a new study. Published in the August 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed jour...Neurologists with expertise in brain stimulation therapy help Parkinson's patients
...kinson's disease. Deep brain stimulation involves intensive patient management, including adjustments of electrical currents and medication dosages as a patient's condition changes. Many medical centers in North America delegate these responsibilities to personnel who do not have extensive experience in Park...