News tagged with intensive care unit

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Study finds race has an impact on both enrollment and disenrollment in hospice care

Although use of hospice services is increasing dramatically, a study led by Regenstrief Institute investigator Kathleen T. Unroe, M.D., MHA, an assistant research professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of ...

Health created Jun 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Outcomes for children after brain injury difficult to predict and highly variable

Outcomes for children with brain injury acquired during childhood are difficult to predict and vary significantly, states an analysis of evidence on the topic published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Pediatrics created Jun 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracking MRSA in real time: Study highlights benefits of rapid whole-genome sequencing

In a new study released today in New England Journal of Medicine, researchers demonstrate that whole genome sequencing can provide clinically relevant data on bacterial transmission within a timescale that can influence infect ...

Genetics created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In preemies, maternal smoking tied to necrotizing enterocolitis

(HealthDay) -- Maternal smoking has been identified as a risk factor associated with the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants, according to a study published June 11 in Pediatrics.

Pediatrics created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antidepressant use associated with increased mortality among critically ill patients?

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, have found that critically ill patients were more likely to die if they were taking the most commonly ...

Medications created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Combination antibiotic treatment does not result in less organ failure in adults with severe sepsis

Frank M. Brunkhorst, M.D., of Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and colleagues conducted a study to compare the effect of the antibiotics moxifloxacin and meropenem with the effect of meropenem monotherapy on ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nighttime intensivist staffing and mortality in the ICU

Nighttime intensivist physician staffing in intensive care units (ICUs) with a low-intensity daytime staffing model is associated with reduced mortality, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Me ...

Other created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reducing post-traumatic stress after intensive care unit

Women are more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress than men after leaving an intensive care unit (ICU), finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. However, psychological and physic ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Only half of meds taken by kids have 'adequate' safety info: study

(HealthDay) -- About half of medications used in children have little or no label information about drug effectiveness, safety or dosing in children, new research finds.

Pediatrics created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Romanian baby born with stunted intestines dies

(AP) -- A Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by tenaciously clinging to life and captured international attention and offers of medical help, died on Thursday. He was nine ...

Other created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ICU stays for worst asthma drop 74 percent, review finds

A review of 30 years of life-threatening asthma cases in a San Antonio intensive care unit found that annual ICU admissions for the condition have dropped 74 percent. The study, by UT Medicine San Antonio physicians who reviewed ...

Inflammatory disorders created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment guidelines updated for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Patients who are diagnosed in the emergency room with a specific type of brain bleed should be considered for immediate transfer to a hospital that treats at least 35 cases a year, according to a new scientific statement ...

Other created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How to get a good night's sleep: Earplugs in the intensive care unit ward off confusion

Patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) often become confused or delirious soon after, or within a few days of, admittance to the ICU. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care shows that u ...

Other created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fetal membrane transplantation prevents blindness

Transplanting tissue from newborn fetal membranes prevents blindness in patients with a devastating disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found.

Ophthalmology created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study points to potential treatment for stroke

Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have demonstrated, in a study to be published online April 24 in Stroke, that a compound mimicking a key activity of a hefty, brain-based protein is capable of increa ...

Cardiology created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast