Your 80-something-year-old dad has just been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit after a stroke or a heart attack. Now, he's surrounded by blinking monitors, with tubes in his arms and alarms going off around him.
Sep 20, 2016
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Jason Katz, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine at UNC School of Medicine and medical director of the cardiac intensive care unit, was the lead author of a recently published manuscript in the Journal of the American ...
Aug 24, 2016
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Women born in the Caribbean or Africa are two times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit at the time of their delivery than Canadian-born women, a new study has found.
Jun 17, 2016
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More than half of the family and friends making decisions for critically ill patients have significantly different estimates for the patient's survival than their doctor—but that's not only because of a misunderstanding, ...
May 17, 2016
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Research published today shows the wide regional variation in the incidence of stillbirth and neonatal deaths in the UK.
May 17, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Shared decision-making should be implemented in the intensive care unit (ICU) as a collaborative process involving patients (or their surrogates) and clinicians, according to a policy statement published online ...
Apr 29, 2016
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The most common scale used to evaluate outcome of neurosurgical procedures, the modified rankin scale (mRS) – does not measure what is commonly assumed, concludes a study conducted at the Department of Neurosurgery of ...
Apr 15, 2016
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More patients hospitalized with acute liver failure - often the result of acetaminophen overdose - are surviving, including those who receive a liver transplant and those who don't, an analysis led by a UT Southwestern Medical ...
Apr 5, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) who survive one week or more of mechanical ventilation can be stratified into disability groups based on age and ICU length of stay, according to a study published online ...
Mar 23, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Most patients with thrombocytopenia have circulating histones, according to a research letter published online Feb. 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the Society of Critical ...
Feb 23, 2016
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