Comparative study of demographic and toxico-clinical factors of patients with acute poisoning admitted to general intensive care unit versus specific intensive care unit for poisoning cases - Nemati K, Mirzaee N, Babak A, Eizadi-Mood N.
In this study, we compared the outcome of hosp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, and Delirium in the ICU ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, and Delirium in the ICU
Might the use of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in patients admitted to intensive care units be protective against delirium?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Critical Care Journal Article Source Type: news
Mortality Post-Perioperative CPR Climbs With Patient Frailty Mortality Post-Perioperative CPR Climbs With Patient Frailty
The frailest patients resuscitated during noncardiac surgery had a 1 in 3 chance of surviving a month, in an analysis that adds to a clinical topic with few published studies.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - July 18, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Episode 1: The Evolution of Managing Severe COVID-19 Since 2020 Episode 1: The Evolution of Managing Severe COVID-19 Since 2020
Drs Matteo Bassetti and Antoni Torres explore the early response to patients with severe COVID-19 and how treatment options have progressed since 2020.Medscape (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - July 18, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Infectious Diseases InDiscussion Source Type: news
Home Discharge Down, Mortality Increased After ICU Stay for Dementia Patients
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 -- Older adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) have lower home discharge rates and increased mortality after intensive care unit (ICU) admission, according to a study published in the July 1 issue of the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 17, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19 ’ s Effect On the Brain
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors started to notice something striking. For what was originally described as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 seemed to have a strong effect on the brain, causing everything from loss of taste and smell and brain fog to, in serious cases, stroke.
NYU Langone Health, a New York city research hospital, started collating those anecdotes in hopes of better understanding how the virus affects the brain and nervous system. Years later, the project has morphed from focusing solely on acute symptoms to also tracking the long-term neurologic issues that some people with Long COVID experience, sa...
Source: TIME: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Ghana: Tarkwa Municipal Hospital in Dire Need of NICU
[Ghanaian Times] Tarkwa -- The Tarkwa Municipal Hospital in the Western Region is in dire need of a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to save the life of new born babies in the municipality and beyond. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 17, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Ghana Health and Medicine West Africa Source Type: news
Two killed after explosion on Crimea's Kerch Bridge
Two parents have died and their young daughter was sent to intensive care following an “emergency situation” on Crimea's Kerch ...#crimea #kerch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
S2 Episode 1: Emergency! Managing Asthma in the ER S2 Episode 1: Emergency! Managing Asthma in the ER
Join Drs Mike Wechsler and Josh Kosowsky as they work through the management of a patient presenting with moderate to severe asthma in the ER.Medscape (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - July 13, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Pulmonary Medicine InDiscussion Source Type: news
‘No one is talking about it’: the cruelty of long Covid in the global south
As research focuses on richer parts of world, people in less developed countries suffer from lack of awareness and supportIn the Hospital del Norte of El Alto, a working-class city in Bolivia, visibly sick patients queue for a consultation with a surgeon. At their feet, two stray dogs sleep on a floor strewn with coca leaves.Dr Silverio Condori, 49, was here whenthe coronavirus pandemic arrived in Bolivia. He fell sick in June 2020 and spent two months in one of the country ’s few intensive care units. “I came back from another world,” he said.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Thomas Graham in La Paz, Amrit Dhillon in Delhi and Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi Tags: Global development Long Covid Coronavirus Infectious diseases World news Kenya Bolivia India Medical research Source Type: news
No Gain From P-Selectin-Blocking Agent in Hospitalized COVID No Gain From P-Selectin-Blocking Agent in Hospitalized COVID
Treatment with crizanlizumab didn ' t improve survival or days free of cardiopulmonary support in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in a randomized study.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - July 10, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Africa: Covid Vaccination in Pregnancy Greatly Reduces Risk of Severe Illness and Death - And Protects Babies
[The Conversation Africa] From the early days of the pandemic, it has been evident that a COVID-19 infection in pregnancy can be serious. Hundreds of studies from around the world have consistently shown that a COVID-19 infection in pregnancy carries significantly higher risk for admission to intensive care units (ICU), invasive ventilation, preeclampsia and death, compared to other COVID-19 patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - July 4, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news
Understanding the co-construction of safety in the paediatric intensive care unit: a meta-ethnography of parents' experiences - Seaton SE, Manning JC, Draper ES, Davis PJ, Mackintosh N.
BACKGROUND: Children experiencing critical illness or injury may require admission to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to receive life-sustaining or life-saving treatment. Studies have explored the experience of parents with a child in PICU but tend... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
The significance of the treatment for elderly severe trauma patients who required intensive care - Sawada Y, Isshiki Y, Ichikawa Y, Fukushima K, Aramaki Y, Kawano K, Mori M, Oshima K.
PURPOSE Elderly trauma patients have a higher risk of severe disability and death, and this outcome burden in elderly trauma patients must be addressed in countries in which the population is aging. The clarification of the unique clinical features of elde... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
FDA OKs Pancreatic Islet Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes FDA OKs Pancreatic Islet Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
Approval of Lantidra, a beta cell therapy derived from donor pancreatic islets, came despite transplant surgeons ' concerns about FDA regulating these cells as biologics rather than transplanted organs.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - June 29, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Alert Source Type: news
