Health
Family caregivers can help shape the outcomes for their loved ones—an ICU nurse explains their vital role
The floor nurse had just told me that my new patient—let's call her Marie—would not stop screaming.
Apr 10, 2024
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Health informatics
Screening tool streamlines requests for palliative care consultations
A simple screening tool integrated into the admissions process for critically ill patients can streamline requests for palliative care consultations, according to a study published in Critical Care Nurse (CCN).
Apr 1, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Klebsiella pneumoniae: An opportunistic pathogen harmless to some, but causes severe disease in others
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies—and may even be lurking in your gut, mouth or nose right now. But it's also a notoriously harmful bacteria that can make us very ill.
Mar 30, 2024
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Patients with delirium more likely to develop dementia, finds study
University of Queensland researchers have found older patients who experience delirium are three times more likely to develop dementia. Professor Ruth Hubbard from UQ's Center for Health Services Research (CHSR) said the ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Boost to palliative care may be needed for cancer patients
Care normally increases towards the end of a cancer patient's life, especially while their prognosis is still uncertain or when treating potentially reversible conditions such as infections, but not all care improves their ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Health informatics
Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors' suspicions
Proprietary artificial intelligence software designed to be an early warning system for sepsis can't differentiate high- and low-risk patients before they receive treatments, according to a new study from the University of ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hispanic patients with respiratory failure found much more likely to be oversedated
Hispanic individuals who are hospitalized with respiratory failure are five times more likely than non-Hispanic patients to receive deep sedation while on a ventilator, according to a new study published in the Annals of ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Health informatics
Q&A: How AI will, and won't, change health care in 2024
Muhammad Mamdani understands why people are wary of artificial intelligence having a say in their health care—but he's even more concerned about the patients who are waiting to benefit from the potentially life-saving benefits ...
Jan 25, 2024
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Surgery
New database to aid development of algorithms, predictive tools to improve surgical outcomes
A team of researchers from UCLA and UC Irvine have created a unique repository of electronic health record data and high-fidelity physiological waveform data from tens of thousands of surgeries that will integrate artificial ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Medical economics
Hospitals dealing with increasingly complex patients, analysis reveals
Hospitalized patients are more complex than they used to be. That's the finding of a newly published UBC study which set out to measure something researchers have been hearing anecdotally from hospital-based health care workers ...
Jan 8, 2024
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