Hospital in Spain saves British hiker after 6-hour cardiac arrest
A 34-year-old British woman has been revived by Spanish doctors after enduring a six-hour cardiac arrest brought on by severe hypothermia. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
British hiker survives six-hour cardiac arrest in 'exceptional' case: Spanish doctor
A 34-year-old British hiker was revived in Spain after a six-hour cardiac arrest brought on by severe hypothermia, with the low mountain temperatures that made her ill also helping to save her life in what a doctor described as an "exceptional case". (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
The Right Training Has Led to 100% Survival for Preterm Babies at this Ugandan Hospital
By Irene Mirembe,
Knowledge management manager, IntraHealth International
The BABIES matrix is a simplified quality-improvement methodology for collecting and displaying data. It was introduced and implemented by the Katakwi Hospital to improve services. Photo courtesy of Irene Mirembe.November 15, 2019Margret Imma from Uganda’s Katakwi District looks lovingly at her 4-month-old, bubbly baby boy, Orisa. He is glowing and Margret couldn’t be happier. This was not the case a few months ago, when Orisa was born too soon.“The pain and suffering that came with handling a preterm baby was unbearable,&rdqu...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health Education Performance Midwives Source Type: news
Trial Supports Therapeutic Hypothermia in Nonshockable Arrest Trial Supports Therapeutic Hypothermia in Nonshockable Arrest
More patients in arrest with nonshockable rhythms survived with favorable neurologic outcomes if they received moderate therapeutic hypothermia rather than targeted normothermia in a randomized trial.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - October 14, 2019 Category: Cardiology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Risk of burns during active external rewarming for accidental hypothermia - Giesbrecht GG, Walpoth BH.
This article describes 3 incidents in which therapeutic or experimental warming of cold individuals caused first- to third-degree burns to the skin. Mechanisms for these injuries are considered. We conclude that active external rewarming of the trunk of a ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Hypothermia Aids Cardiac Arrest With Nonshockable Rhythm
THURSDAY, Oct. 3, 2019 -- Moderate therapeutic hypothermia for 24 hours is associated with improvement in favorable neurologic outcome at 90 days among patients with persistent coma who have been resuscitated from cardiac arrest with nonshockable... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 3, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Why America Is Failing To Feed Its Aging
Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure.
And he has struggled to get enough to eat.
Earlier this year, he ended up in the hospital after burning himself while boiling water for oatmeal. The long stay caused the Memphis vet to fall off a charity’s rolls for home-delivered Meals on Wheels, so he had to rely on others, such as his son, a generous off-duty nurse and a local church to bring him food.
“Many times, I’ve felt like I was starving,” he says. “There’s neighbors that...
Source: TIME: Health - August 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laura Ungar & Trudy Lieberman / Kaiser Health News Tags: Uncategorized Aging politics Source Type: news
Pre-Hospital Newborn Resuscitation: The Ten Minute Dilemma
(Photo: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
A baby is treated in the back of an ambulance in his undated photo.
An ambulance is dispatched to a full-term imminent birth. As they arrive, the newborn is delivered and, after a minute shows no signs of cardiorespiratory effort. Newborn resuscitation is delivered and despite best efforts the situation is becoming increasingly futile. Five minutes have passed with no detectable cardiac activity; the midwife and additional paramedics are five minutes away, the nearest hospital fifteen.
Should the paramedic crew decide to stay or leave?
In 2012, the World H...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Simon Robinson, MSC Tags: Airway & Respiratory Exclusive Articles Source Type: news
Guadalajara Covered in Feet of Ice After ‘Never-Before-Seen’ Hailstorm
Residents of the Mexican city of Guadalajara woke up to a massive hailstorm Sunday that covered several neighborhoods in a layer of ice up to five feet thick in some areas.
The hailstorm hit Guadalajara at around 2 a.m. Sunday, the AFP reports, when the temperature suddenly dropped after what the BBC says were several days of high summer heat.
Ulises Ruiz—AFP/Getty ImagesAerial view of vehicles buried in hail in the streets in the eastern area of Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on June 30, 2019.
Nobody is reported to have been hurt in the hailstorm, but two people showed “early signs of hypothermia,&rdq...
Source: TIME: Science - July 1, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Julia Webster Tags: Uncategorized Mexico onetime weather Source Type: news
Coroner outlines series of mistakes that led to Gilles Duceppe's mother being found dead in snow
Hélène Rowley Hotte Duceppe, 93, who died of hypothermia after leaving her seniors' residence in response to an alarm, was stuck outside in plain view of a security camera that no one bothered to check for six hours, a coroner has concluded. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
Concept of lethal triad in critical care of severe burn injury - Muthukumar V, Karki D, Jatin B.
BACKGROUND: The trinity of hypothermia, acidosis and coagulopathy, the lethal triad in trauma setting is a well-known risk factor associated with high risk of death. Burn is also a pathological situation where inflammatory response, endothelial injury, hyp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Man, 60, is left with HYPOTHERMIA 'because of his epilepsy medication'
Doctors in Glasgow tried to understand why the unnamed man had hypothermia because he had not been in the cold. 'Dangerously high' levels of medication phenytoin were found in his blood. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Planning for Winter Emergencies
Source: Administration for Children and Families [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (ACF). Published: 5/14/2019.
Head Start and early childhood programs in areas that experience extreme cold should have a plan for handling winter emergencies. This resource, part of the Embracing Health and Wellness Series, provides tips programs can use to prepare for emergencies such as frostbite, hypothermia, and loss of power; respond to frostbite and hypothermia; and stay informed about possible bad winter weather.
(Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Are Sleeping Pills Safe? Here ’s What Research Says
According to the latest numbers, roughly 9 million Americans — 4% of U.S. adults — use prescription sleep aids, or medications that can help with insomnia and other sleep issues. And now, some of the most popular prescription sleep drugs must carry stronger safety warnings.
In April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated black-box warnings — which the agency uses to “call attention to serious or life-threatening risks” — on three sedative-hypnotic sleep aids: eszopiclone (often sold under the brand name Lunesta), zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem (Ambien). Hypnotic drugs, which ar...
Source: TIME: Health - May 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Drugs Source Type: news
News: POLAR Study Stops Hypothermia for TBI Cold
No abstract available (Source: Emergency Medicine News)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - May 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Source Type: news
