Study first to show potential of light-activated gene therapy for knee injuries
...grow bone in patients who have lost bone to severe trauma or a bone tumor, and would otherwise lose the limb. "While LAGeT's current focus is on musculoskeletal-related disorders, this approach could just as readily be used to deliver therapeutic genes to treat cancer and cardiovascular disease," Schwarz s...Understanding cell death may bring new life to kidney treatment
...ay. Dehydration, low blood pressure, septic shock, trauma or removing a kidney for transplantation can temporarily halt or reduce blood and oxygen supplies, says Dr. Zheng Dong, cell biologist at the Medical College of Georgia. Ischemia leads to cell suicide or apoptosis, particularly in the energy-consumin...Delayed aortic trauma repair may improve survival
...first 24 hours of a blunt (non-penetrating) aortic trauma injury may have a better chance of long-term survi...is that most people die from blunt thoracic aortic trauma before ever reaching a hospital, and about 50 percent of those who do make it will die within a few ...Surgical critical care team at HUP earns Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence
...tical Care Team. The team cares for critically ill trauma and post-surgical patients. On a daily basis, the primary nurses facilitate and coordinate the plan of care for patients and families, in collaboration with the healthcare team. "Our nurses do an amazing job in keeping the pieces of the puzzle togeth...Delivery of trauma care in Britain is threatened by a lack of trainin... of severely injured patients is demanding because trauma does not respect the boundaries of anatomy or surgical specialty. Yet the UK lacks training opportun...Minimally invasive approach can work for many thyroid patients
...ult, minimally invasive approaches reduce surgical trauma and recovery time with most patients going home within a few hours of surgery. "We don't even use stitches on the skin," Dr. Terris says of the endoscopic approach. "We use a little bit of medical-grade glue." He notes as the incision gets smaller, s...Going the extra mile for specialized heart attack care
...rs, patients with STEMI could be treated more like trauma patients, with ambulances taking certain patients to specialized hospitals that perform emergency heart procedures, rather then transporting them to the nearest hospital. Only a small percentage of American hospitals perform angioplasties, which re-...Oral conditions, dental caries know no borders
...-preventive treatment in pregnant women, to dental trauma as a significant health issue in Canadian adults, and to controlling sugar consumption in rural Haiti. The consensus was that people with less education and of lower socio-economic status remain at the greatest risk for adverse oral conditions, and t...Should heart attack care be more like trauma care? Study suggests regional system could be feasible
...lists: whether to make heart attack care more like trauma care, with ambulance crews taking certain patients to specialized hospitals that can perform emergency heart procedures, rather than stopping at the closest hospital. A new study looks at a crucial issue in that debate: how close Americans live to ...Emergency departments score poorly in child-saving drills, Hopkins study finds
...operly stabilize seriously injured children during trauma simulations, according to a team of researchers at.... Of the 35 EDs in the study, five were designated trauma centers (out of a total of 11 in the State of North Carolina), and 30 were located in community hosp...Low-tech garment holds promise in preventing maternal death related to childbirth
...cians during transport of patients with lower body trauma to help prevent severe obstetrical hemorrhage by reversing shock and decreasing bleeding. "Even though there have been variations of this suit used in the past, we see this as being somewhat revolutionary," said Miller. "We have demonstrated its eff...Researchers say criterion for diagnosing child abuse not always accurate
...n, sudden infant death syndrome, meningitis, blunt trauma to the head, ruptured cerebral aneurysms, hemorrhagic strokes, cancer that had spread to the brain, high blood pressure, bleeding disorders, diabetes and gunshot wounds to the head. "Many doctors have been taught to look for the hemorrhages when th...New insight into cause of Crohn's disease
...tients with Crohn's disease produce in response to trauma at sites in the bowel (intestinal biopsy) and on the skin surface (skin abrasion). They found that in response to trauma, Crohn's disease patients produced much lower quantities of neutrophils and inflammatory mediators when compared with healthy ind...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 February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the J...HUP welcomes a Swedish invasion
...ther educate the country's surgeons in the area of trauma care. HUP began sending its doctors there for one ...er lab work, and to present an overview of various trauma scenarios. Over time, the Swedish surgeons arranged to visit HUP in order to get first-hand experien...How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing
...ther people, and that a distracter associated with trauma may grab control of brain processing and essentially take off-line those areas of the brain we use to stay on task. It's as if when you're sad, the world seems sadder and all you see is bad news." "Our aim is to reverse that with drug treatment, so w...Children fare better at pediatric trauma centers
...ificantly lower when care is provided in pediatric trauma centers than in nonpediatric centers. Children's R...present challenges to predominantly adult-oriented trauma care delivery systems. There appears to be substantial room for improvement in current pediatric tra...Mayo Clinic researchers challenge sepsis theory
... syndrome like sepsis that can happen in cancer or trauma or in response to drugs -- is that this receptor gets released from its constraint. That's the first step that actually initiates sepsis." Research is underway to discover new therapies that could prevent, blunt or reverse the release of the constrai...Exposure to military trauma related to post-war disease and death in Civil War veterans
...Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. War trauma has been linked to higher rates of chronic illness and death, as well as specific conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, according to background information in the article. The Civil War may have...Journal article validates the coming of age of hair replacement surgery
... and transplant singular units of hair without the trauma associated with other types of hair transplantation surgery. Twenty-two patients were enrolled in this pilot study, followed by an additional 37 based on the success of the first group. Final results of the study indicate lower follicular transectio...