News tagged with acute care
Emergency medicine: heart-lung machine brings clinically dead patients back to life
Young people especially who suffer acute heart failure can be saved with the prompt use of a heart-lung machine. And the number of patients that can be saved could be even higher, according to a current study ...
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Sep 06, 2012 |
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Tapping the body to fight disease
Biju Parekkadan saw his future in the plight of a newborn thousands of miles away.
Medical research
Sep 03, 2012 |
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30-day mortality after AMI drops with improved treatment
The analysis of four French registries from 1995 to 2010 was presented by Professor Nicolas Danchin from the Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou.
Cardiology
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Study questions validity of quality measure for stroke care
One of the key indicators of the quality of care provided by hospitals to acute stroke victims is the percentage of patients who die within a 30-day period. A new study shows that the decisions made by patients and their ...
Neuroscience
Aug 27, 2012 |
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Women with acute heart failure have similar in-hospital mortality to men but are less treated
Women with acute heart failure have similar in-hospital mortality to men but are less treated in the real world, according to results from the global ALARM-HF registry presented today at the ESC Congress 2012. The findings ...
Cardiology
Aug 27, 2012 |
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Spending more on trauma care doesn't translate to higher survival rates: study
A large-scale review of national patient records reveals that although survival rates are the same, the cost of treating trauma patients in the western United States is 33 percent higher than the bill for treating similarly ...
Surgery
Aug 10, 2012 |
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VCU medical team recommends preventive antibiotic for COPD sufferers
Patients suffering from the chronic lung condition COPD, which is the third-leading cause of death and disability in the United States, may benefit greatly from a three-times-a-week dose of an antibiotic, according to a study ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 26, 2012 |
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Heart CT scans may help emergency room personnel more quickly assess patients with chest pain
Adding computed tomography (CT) scans to standard screening procedures may help emergency room staff more rapidly determine which patients complaining of chest pain are having a heart attack or may soon have a heart attack, ...
Cardiology
Jul 25, 2012 |
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Hospitals' stroke-care rankings change markedly when stroke severity is considered
As part of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals and medical centers are required to report their quality-of-care and risk-standardized outcomes for stroke and other common medical conditions. But reporting models for mortality ...
Health
Jul 17, 2012 |
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Stray-bullet shootings often harm women, kids
(Medical Xpress) -- Most people killed or wounded in stray-bullet shootings were unaware of events leading to the gunfire that caused their injuries, and nearly one-third of the victims were children and nearly half were ...
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Jul 10, 2012 |
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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) linked to abnormal stem cells
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that abnormal bone marrow stem cells drive the development of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), serious blood diseases that are common among ...
Medical research
Jul 02, 2012 |
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The Affordable Care Act could have negative consequences for elderly recipients
Three provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) intended to enhance care transitions and prevent avoidable outcomes for the Medicare population are found to have inadequately addressed the needs of older, vulnerable recipients ...
Health
Jun 22, 2012 |
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Car crash victims more likely to survive if taken directly to a trauma centre
People who are seriously injured in a car accident are more than 30 per cent more likely to survive at least 48 hours if they are taken directly to a trauma centre than those who are taken first to a non-trauma centre, new ...
Surgery
Jun 08, 2012 |
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MRSA incidence reduced among elderly patients by 82 percent over nearly 3-year period
The introduction of daily bathing with disposable, germ-killing cloths resulted in a sustained, significant decrease in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) incidence at a Canadian geriatric facility, accord ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 05, 2012 |
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Cell transplantation of lung stem cells has beneficial impact for emphysema
When autologous (self-donated) lung-derived mensenchymal stem cells (LMSCs) were transplanted endoscopically into 13 adult female sheep modeled with emphysema, post-transplant evaluation showed evidence of tissue regeneration ...
Medical research
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