Changes in transfusion and fluid therapy practices in severely injured children: an analysis of 5118 children from the TraumaRegister DGU ® - Piekarski F, Kaufmann J, Engelhardt T, Raimann FJ, Lustenberger T, Marzi I, Lefering R, Zacharowski K, Meybohm P, TraumaRegister DGU.
PURPOSE: Trauma is the leading cause of death in children. In adults, blood transfusion and fluid resuscitation protocols changed resulting in a decrease of morbidity and mortality over the past 2 decades. Here, transfusion and fluid resuscitation practice... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
COVID Survivor Blood Transfusion a Safe Treatment
The experimental treatment -- called convalescent plasma therapy -- is popular because no drug has been approved specifically to treat coronavirus infection. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - June 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zydus Cadila gets USFDA approval to market generic version of Deferasirox tablets
Zydus Cadila, part of Cadila Healthcare group, on Tuesday said it has received final approval from the US health regulator to market its generic version of Deferasirox tablets used in treatment of chronic iron overload due to blood transfusions. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - June 15, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Subcutaneous Daratumumab Combination Resulted in Deep and Rapid Hematologic Responses and Improved Clinical Outcomes in the Treatment of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Light Chain (AL) Amyloidosis
RARITAN, NJ, June 13, 2020 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today results from the first randomized Phase 3 study investigating subcutaneous daratumumab[i] in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed light chain (AL) amyloidosis, a rare and potentially fatal disease.[1],[2] The data demonstrated subcutaneous daratumumab in combination with cyclophosphamide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (D-CyBorD) resulted in a higher hematologic complete response rate (CR), (53 percent vs. 18 percent [P<0.0001]), compared to CyBorD. Additionally, treatment with D-CyBorD delayed the time ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - June 15, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
Ultraviolet Light Treats Influenza?
The healing power of ultraviolet light (UV) has flown under the radar for decades. Yet, it’s one of the most powerful detoxifying agents known to man. It kills bacteria and viruses and can be used in a clinical setting.
The therapeutic benefits of light have been known for millennia. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, believed light was essential to balance the body and emotions.
And there is good reason why, during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, medics discovered that severely ill patients had hugely better recovery rates when they were nursed outside and had regular exposure to sunlight.1
You see, UV r...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 21, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr.A.Sears Tags: Health Source Type: news
Clinical- and surgery-specific risk factors for post-operative sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 30 million patients
In conclusion, multiple-patient and surgery-related risk factors are associated with the development of post-operative sepsis. Recognizing these risk factors could assist in the pre-operative identification of patients at risk of post-operative sepsis. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Reactivation viremia in pediatric sepsis
Conclusion(s): Children with severe sepsis had low rates of detectable viremia, which limited analyses of its association with clinical outcomes or immune paralysis phenotype. Given the rare occurrence of cytomegalovirus viremia, in particular, our study does not support a role for viremia as a biomarker of illness severity or as a modifiable risk factor of clinical outcomes for most patients. Future studies on the role of viremia in pediatric sepsis will need to consider the challenges posed by low rates of viremia in this population. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I Am a Midwife in a Rohingya Refugee Camp —Here’s What It’s Like
By Maksuma Akter,
Midwife in Bangladesh
I have been a midwife in these camps for the last two years. Photo courtesy of Maksuma Akter.May 07, 2020Within a seven-block area live over 20,000 people. Most live in sheds, and some families are seven to a single room. Children don’t run free in the streets—they are confined to small areas.These are refugees, living in Rohingya refugee camps.They have fled their country to escape persecution. But most of them left lives of possession to find themselves inside a fence with nothing but the clothes on their backs and their families. They are anxious, depressed, and ...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health International Day of the Midwife Nursing Midwifery 2020 Midwives Source Type: news
Lucknow hospital begins plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 positive patients
The doctor from Orai in Uttar Pradesh was administered the plasma donated by a woman doctor from Canada who was the first COVID-19 patient admitted to the KGMU and later recovered, Dr Tulika Chandra of the hospital's blood transfusion medicine department said. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lesotho: Health Crisis as Blood Bank Runs Dry
[Lesotho Times] A health crisis is looming amid revelations that the Lesotho Blood Transfusion Services (LBTS) has almost run out of blood. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
UCLA Health urges healthy people to donate blood
Facing a critical shortage of donated blood at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, healthy people are urged to give blood.Even though Los Angeles has issued a safer at home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, giving blood is permitted.“Blood donation is considered an essential service that is exempt from the safer at home directive,” said Dr. Dawn Ward, medical director for the UCLA Blood& Platelet Center. “Cancer patients, trauma patients, mothers delivering babies, babies born in critical condition, and patients undergoing surgeries still frequently requi...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 15, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Plasma from coronavirus survivors found to help severely ill patients
Blood transfusion studies by teams in China report striking improvementsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDoctors have found tentative evidence that seriously ill coronavirus patients can benefit from infusions of blood plasma collected from people who have recovered from the disease.Related:Wellcome Trust urges firms to donate £6bn for Covid-19 researchContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 7, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Medical research Health Science Infectious diseases World news UK news China Source Type: news
Centre steps in to provide healthcare to the poorest
However, with the rising Covid-19 cases, state governments have been converting hospitals, especially government hospitals, as dedicated facilities to treat only Covid-19 patients. This has adversely affected poor patients with serious ailments related to oncology, blood disorders and kidney. Some require regular procedures like dialysis and blood transfusions. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coronavirus Fears Are Leading to Blood Drive Cancellations at ‘Unprecedented’ Rates in the U.S.
Winter is not a boom time for blood donation centers in the U.S. Bad weather, plus circulating flu strains, tend to deter people from giving blood. And the ongoing outbreak of the new coronavirus in the U.S. has worsened an already lean time. According to the American Red Cross, about 1,500 of their blood drives across the country have been canceled because of concerns about the coronavirus. The organization estimates that they’ve lost out on roughly 46,000 donations as a result. Meanwhile, the demand for blood is still strong.
“We’ve not seen anything like this at the Red Cross,” says Chris Hrouda,...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mandy Oaklander Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Alternatives to Transfusion: Artificial Oxygen Carriers Alternatives to Transfusion: Artificial Oxygen Carriers
This review and case study explores the potential of blood substitutes, specifically perfluorocarbons and hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers, as alternatives to blood transfusion.American Journal of Clinical Pathology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - February 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
