A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital reveals that computer software that helps inform clinicians' decisions about a patient's care can prevent 95% of medication errors in the operating room. The ...
Jun 13, 2024
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The nasal microbiota of intensive care unit (ICU) patients effectively distinguishes sepsis from non-septic cases and outperforms analyzing the gut microbiota to predict sepsis, according to a new study published in Microbiology ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Women who require intensive care when pregnant are more likely to die compared with women who are not admitted—an excess risk that persists for up to a year after discharge from hospital, researchers also found.
Jun 7, 2024
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A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting, held in Houston, Texas, June 1–5, is the first to find that episodic hypoxemia and hypoxic burden related to obstructive sleep apnea are associated with the ...
Jun 4, 2024
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Supplemental oxygen is among the most widely prescribed therapies in the world, with an estimated 13 to 20 million patients worldwide requiring oxygen delivery by mechanical ventilation each year. Mechanical ventilation—a ...
Jun 3, 2024
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Some dreams may, in fact, predict the future: New research has found that during sleep, some neurons not only replay the recent past but also anticipate future experience.
May 30, 2024
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Only 14.5% of adult patients with moderate or severe asthma are prescribed the recommended SMART combination inhaler regimen and over 40% of academic pulmonary and allergy clinicians have not adopted this optimal therapy, ...
May 21, 2024
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Former cigarette smokers who use e-cigarettes or vaping devices may be at higher risk for lung cancer than those who don't vape, according to research published at the ATS 2024 International Conference.
May 20, 2024
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A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported clinical trial has found that intravenous acetaminophen reduced sepsis patients' risk of having organ injury or developing acute respiratory distress syndrome, a serious condition ...
May 19, 2024
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In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, clinicians make split-second decisions about which antibiotics to give a patient when a life-threatening infection is suspected. A new U-M study reveals that ...
May 13, 2024
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