Cardiology
New app replaces ultrasound with smartphone camera to measure heart health
Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that.
Sep 5, 2017
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Critical Care Medicine
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Improving ICU care and communication through technology use
Hospitalization in an intensive care unit (ICU) can be a frightening and sometimes traumatizing experience for patients. Although engaging the patient and improving communication among the clinical team can positively impact ...
Jul 17, 2017
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Health
Improving cardiac ICU outcomes through specialized 24/7 care
Around-the-clock care from senior physicians helped reduce major complications in cardiac surgery patients as compared to receiving care from resident physicians, according to a new University of Alberta study.
Jul 10, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows one of the deadliest hospital-acquired infections is preventable
For some hospital patients, going on a ventilator is often the difference between life and death. About 800,000 hospital patients undergo mechanical ventilation each year in the United States due to a variety of illnesses ...
May 22, 2017
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Health
Women perform worse in CPR
Does it matter whether a man or a woman carries out CPR? Researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have shown that female resuscitation teams performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation less efficiently ...
May 8, 2017
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Health
Delirium in critically ill children admitted to hospitals is common
One out of every four children admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) for critical illness develops delirium, according to an international study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The ...
Mar 15, 2017
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Other
IU Center for Aging Research develops novel ICU delirium severity assessment tool
Millions of intensive care unit patients in the United States experience delirium, an acute brain failure resulting in confusion and long-term memory problems. Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research ...
Mar 14, 2017
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Health
New guidelines seek to promote family-centered care in the ICU
Critical illness is a stressful and traumatic experience that may have lasting effects on the health of patients and families, even months after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU). A new set of guidelines for promoting ...
Jan 18, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Therapeutic hypothermia benefits adults with TBI
(HealthDay)—For adults, but not children, with traumatic brain injuries, therapeutic hypothermia is beneficial, according to a meta-analysis published online Dec. 9 in Critical Care Medicine.
Dec 20, 2016
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Neuroscience
Traumatic head injuries should be treated by cooling down patients
New research from Royal Holloway published today in Critical Care Medicine shows that lowering the body temperature of people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as soon as possible after the trauma may significantly ...
Dec 15, 2016
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