EVT appears underused in certain stroke patients
In this study, patients hospitalized with ischemic stroke and cardiac intervention may be less than half as likely to receive EVT as those without cardiac intervention,” the group wrote.
Ultimately, the lower rates of EVT after cardiac intervention seen in the study could be explained by multiple factors: delays in diagnosis, clinician reluctance due to perceived higher procedural risk, or patients being ineligible, the researchers suggested.
They noted that additional studies are needed to explore these issues.
“Given the known benefit of EVT, there is a need to better understand the reasons for lower rates of EVT ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 30, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Cardiovascular Radiology Neuroradiology Source Type: news
Spontaneous bilateral basal ganglia haemorrhage secondary to methanol poisoning - Sohor NJ, Loh WC, Pang RY, Khan AH, Chia PK, Sulaiman WAW, Mat LI, Hoo FK, Basri H.
Methanol toxicity remains as major problem in the medical field.([1],[2],[3]) With its active metabolite, formic acid often leads to severe metabolic acidosis and to some extend brain damaged.([4],[5],[6]) We are reporting a case of brain hemorrhage at the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Nuclear Tracer Shortage; Weighing Post-Ablation OAC; Fix for Biased AI Tools?
(MedPage Today) -- Magnesium's hemostatic effects in intracerebral hemorrhage were supported by reduced hematoma expansion in FAST-MAG participants who achieved higher serum magnesium levels with magnesium treatment. (Stroke)
The American Society... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - December 27, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Nuance and profound impact: evaluating the effects of the unmet full coma scale in patients with mild subdural hemorrhage - Chien SC, Kang SC, Tu PH, Chen CC, Tee YS, Liao CH, Chuang CC, Fu CY.
INTRODUCTION: Patients with subdural hemorrhage (SDH) and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13-15 are typically categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury. We hypothesize that patients without a maximum GCS score - specifically, patients with GCS ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Science ’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: Weight loss drugs with a real shot at fighting obesity
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Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers.
Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Interventional treatment of symptomatic vasospasm in the setting of traumatic brain injury; a systematic review of published cases - Sorrentino ZA, Lucke-Wold BP, Laurent D, Quintin SS, Hoh BL.
Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (tSAH) is frequently co-morbid with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and may induce secondary injury through vascular changes such as vasospasm and subsequent delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI). While aneurysmal SAH is well stud... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
How viable is point-of-care MRI?
Wednesday, November 29 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | W7-SSNR12-5 | Room E353B Is point-of-care MRI a viable tool for critically ill patients? The answer is yes, according to research to be presented Wednesday afternoon.Point-of-care MRI is a promising tool for treating critically ill patients who can't be transported to the imaging suite, wrote a team led by presenter Brian Gerard Yep, MD, of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center in Orange, CA."This technology is promising in critically ill patients too unstable to transport where early MRI access is critical for improved survival and better patient outcome...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 16, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: 2023 MRI Preview Source Type: news
Rapid AI gets FDA nod for Rapid SDH
RapidAI has received 501(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Rapid SDH, an AI-powered module for detecting suspected hemispheric acute and chronic subdural hematoma.With the Rapid mobile app, Rapid SDH automatically sends results to the entire trauma team across the hospital system or treatment network.The company highlighted the following characteristics of Rapid SDH:Features hemispheric subdural hematomas, intracerebral brain hemorrhage, and hyperdensity for faster and complete patient assessment.Positive predictive value of 99% (sensitivity 93%, specificity 99%) for suspected acute and chro...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 9, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Father claims AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine is 'defective' as the drugs giant faces a landmark High Court battle over the accusations
Bringing the court action is IT engineer Jamie Scott, who suffered a brain haemorrhage the day after his first AstraZeneca jab, leaving him with permanent brain damage. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hemorrhagic stroke caused by xylometazoline poisoning - Bana ś BP, Brzeźniakiewicz-Janus K, Majdanik S, Parafiniuk M, Łużny S, Stachowicz A, Janus T.
We present the fatal case of a 40 year-old-w... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Poisoning Source Type: news
Risk of cerebral hemorrhage in mild traumatic brain injury and antithrombotic treatment - Mart ínez-Rivas JJ, Rodríguez-Lucas F, Planells G, Corrales D, Cocho D.
INTRODUCTION: The observation time in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is controversial. Our aim was to assess the risk of neurological complications in mTBI with and without antithrombotic treatment. METHOD: We retrospectively evaluated patients... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
What Are Potential Complications of a Forceps Delivery?
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The main outcome of any delivery is to have a healthy mother and healthy child. For millinea, mothers delivered babies with the help of their mothers and learned women without the benefits of potential instrumented interventions when complications arose, and today they are options for some deliveries. Instrumented delivery techniques have markedly decreased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Instrument delivery techniques in the second stage of labor includes forceps (begun in the 1600s), vacuum delivery (mainly use began in 1950s) and second stage cesarean section (cesarean section being first used ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 23, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Saving lives, improving mothers ’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2019-21
This report, the tenth MBRRACE-UK annual report of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity, includes surveillance data on women who died during or up to one year after pregnancy between 2019 and 2021 in the UK. In addition, it also includes confidential enquiries into the care of women who died between 2019 and 2021 in the UK and Ireland from obstetric haemorrhage, amniotic fluid embolism, anaesthetic causes, infection, general medical and surgical disorders and epilepsy and stroke. The report also includes a Morbidity Confidential Enquiry into the care of women with morbidity following repeat caesarean...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - October 17, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient safety Source Type: news
6 Stories Show the Human Toll of Poland ’ s Strict Abortion Laws
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Krzysztof Sowinski has cried every day since his wife Marta, who was five months pregnant, died of sepsis in 2022; he believes doctors put Marta’s life in danger by not giving them the option to terminate the pregnancy while the fetus’ heart was still beating. Janusz Kucharski also lost his partner Justyna to sepsis in the fifth month of a pregnancy. She left behind two boys.
It is likely, reproductive-rights advocates say, that these women would be alive if not for Poland’s increasingly restrictive abort...
Source: TIME: Health - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Pamula Tags: Uncategorized abortion Source Type: news
