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
May 22, 2012 |
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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
May 21, 2012 |
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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
May 21, 2012 |
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Back pain improves in first six weeks but lingering effects at one year
For people receiving health care for acute and persistent low-back pain, symptoms will improve significantly in the first six weeks, but pain and disability may linger even after one year, states a large study published in ...
Health
May 14, 2012 |
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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
May 13, 2012 |
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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
May 11, 2012 |
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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
May 10, 2012 |
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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
May 10, 2012 |
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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
May 04, 2012 |
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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
May 04, 2012 |
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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
Apr 26, 2012 |
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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
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Low-birth-weight infants born at hospitals known for nursing excellence have better outcomes on some measures
In a study that included more than 72,000 very low-birth-weight infants, among those born in hospitals with recognition for nursing excellence (RNE), compared with non-RNE hospitals, there was a significantly lower rate of ...
Health
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Patients with acute low back pain have poor prognosis
(HealthDay) -- Few patients with acute low back pain (LBP), with or without sciatica, declare sick leave; however, approximately half have one or more recurrences and a considerable proportion experience chronic ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Men more prone to complications after brain, spine surgery
(HealthDay) -- Men are twice as likely as women to have complications after brain or spinal surgery, and also spend more time in the hospital after the operation, a new study finds.
Surgery
Apr 20, 2012 |
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