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Quick magnesium treatment fails to improve stroke outcomes, but study has silver lining
In the first study of its kind, a consortium led by UCLA physicians found that giving stroke patients intravenous magnesium within an hour of the onset of symptoms does not improve stroke outcomes.   However, the 8-year trial did find that with the help of paramedics in the field, intravenous medications can frequently be administered to stroke victims within that so-called "golden hour," during which they have the best chance to survive and avoid debilitating, long-term neurological damage.   The latter finding is a "game-changer," said Dr. Jeffrey Saver, director of the UCLA Stroke Center and a professor of ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 13, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

An Innovative Community Geriatrics Elective to Teach Year 4 Medical Students About Nursing Home Care
In Singapore, Geriatrics is core curriculum in medical undergraduate training. Year two medical students are introduced to aging in a four hour program based in a nursing home. In their final year they spend one month in geriatric medicine as part of their 3 month internal medicine posting. In the fourth year there is an elective period of six weeks where they choose postings that they would like to spend time to learn more about the subject. There are 65 NHs in Singapore with 9495 beds as compared to 6 acute hospitals with 7500 beds. The NHs have more patients for students to learn from. The residents are also more stable...
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: David Yong, David Yong, Patricia Lee Tags: Poster Abstracts Source Type: research

Improving the one-year mortality of stroke patients: an 18-year observation in a teaching hospital.
This study determined the one-year survival rate and prognostic factors of hospitalized hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke patients from 1991 to 2008 in a teaching hospital in Taiwan. We also evaluated the improvements in the one-year mortality after stroke during an 18-year study period. Patients admitted for cerebral hemorrhage (n = 3,678) and cerebral infarction (n = 16,010), identified from an in-patient electronic database, were linked to the National Death Registry of Taiwan. Actuarial analysis was used to determine the one-year survival rates, and Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to investigate the pre...
Source: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine - February 8, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Chen HF, Li CY, Lee SP, Kwok YT, Chu YT Tags: Tohoku J Exp Med Source Type: research

Life-saving clot-busting drugs more likely to be administered in hospitals with neurology residency programs
Stroke patients treated at hospitals with neurology residency programs are significantly more likely to get life-saving clot-busting drugs than those seen at other teaching or non-teaching hospitals, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests. The findings, described online in the journal Neurology, suggest that patients at academic medical centers with neurology residency programs likely benefit from having stroke specialists on hand 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news

Hospitals with Neurology Residency Programs More Likely to Administer Life-Saving Clot-Busting Drugs - 11/6/13
Stroke patients treated at hospitals with neurology residency programs are significantly more likely to get life-saving clot-busting drugs than those seen at other teaching or non-teaching hospitals, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - November 6, 2013 Category: Research Source Type: news

Hospitals with neurology residency programs more likely to administer life-saving clot-busting drugs
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Stroke patients treated at hospitals with neurology residency programs are significantly more likely to get life-saving clot-busting drugs than those seen at other teaching or non-teaching hospitals, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 6, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Increased platelet activation in early symptomatic vs. asymptomatic carotid stenosis and relationship with microembolic status: results from the Platelets and Carotid Stenosis Study
DiscussionRecently, symptomatic carotid stenosis patients have had higher platelet counts (potentially reflecting increased platelet production, mobilization or reduced clearance) and platelet activation status than asymptomatic patients. MES were more frequently detected in early symptomatic than asymptomatic patients, but the differences between late symptomatic and asymptomatic groups were not significant. Increased lymphocyte‐platelet complex formation in recently symptomatic vs. asymptomatic MES‐negative patients indicates enhanced platelet activation in this early symptomatic subgroup. Platelet biomarkers, in com...
Source: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis - July 15, 2013 Category: Hematology Authors: J. A. Kinsella, W. O. Tobin, S. Tierney, T. M. Feeley, B. Egan, D. R. Collins, T. Coughlan, D. O'Neill, J. Harbison, P. Madhavan, D. J. Moore, S. M. O'Neill, M. P. Colgan, C. P. Doherty, R. P. Murphy, M. Saqqur, N. Moran, G. Hamilton, D. J. H McCabe Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

In Sub-Saharan Africa Hypertension-Driven Disease Rapidly Rising
Based on the experience of a large hospital in Tanzania, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have discovered a "startlingly" high burden of hypertension in this sub-Saharan African country. In the Journal of Hypertension, the researchers say non-communicable disease -- driven primarily by hypertension, resulting in stroke and other cardiovascular diseases -- accounted for nearly half of the deaths and admissions during a three-year period at Weill Bugando Medical Center, one of Tanzania's preeminent teaching hospitals...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hypertension Source Type: news

157 E-Books New to JEFFLINE
Scott Library added these 157 e-books to the growing collection in May and June: Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory Adult Emergency Medicine Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination (4th ed.) Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses (2nd ed.) Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing (5th ed.) Arrhythmia Essentials Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery Atlas of Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.) Atlas of Hematopathology: Morphology, Immunophenotype, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Approaches Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases Atlas of No...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 25, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news

Race/ethnic differences in obstructive sleep apnea risk in patients with acute ischemic strokes in south Florida.
DISCUSSION: We observed higher frequency of patients at high risk for OSA in Hispanics with acute ischemic strokes in South Florida. PMID: 23771345 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sleep and Breathing - June 15, 2013 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Ramos AR, Guilliam D, Dib SI, Koch S Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act: What the Average Radiologist and Manager Need to Know
The Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) was enacted in 2010 and requires applicable manufacturers of medical devices, drugs, biological material, or medical supplies to report payments or transfers of value that are provided to physicians or teaching hospitals. PPSA has value in creating greater transparency in the financial relationships between industry, physicians, and teaching hospitals, and in potentially reducing problematic conflicts of interest. PPSA requires that this data be published, in searchable form, on a public website. CMS has delayed the reporting under PPSA until after January 1, 2013, and has yet to ...
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - June 1, 2013 Category: Radiology Authors: Nogah Haramati Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Increased platelet activation in early symptomatic versus asymptomatic carotid stenosis and relationship with microembolic status: Results from the Platelets And Carotid Stenosis (PACS) Study
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Source: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis - April 26, 2013 Category: Hematology Authors: JA Kinsella, WO Tobin, S Tierney, TM Feeley, B Egan, DR Collins, T Coughlan, D O'Neill, J Harbison, P Madhavan, DJ Moore, SM O'Neill, MP Colgan, CP Doherty, RP Murphy, M Saqqur, N Moran, G Hamilton, DJH McCabe Tags: Original Article ‐ Platelets Source Type: research

Doctors 'Reverse' Brain Bleed Procedure To Treat Critically Ill Stroke Patients
Doctors at Southampton's teaching hospitals have reversed a procedure developed to stem bleeding in the brain to help them save the lives of seriously ill stroke patients. � The innovation, which involves placing a thin wire into the groin and passing it up to the skull using high definition TV images, is based on a technique originally used as an alternative to surgery for patients with ruptured brain aneurysms - fluid-filled bulges which force blood vessels to tear...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news

Randomized Controlled Trial of Surface Peroneal Nerve Stimulation for Motor Relearning in Lower Limb Hemiparesis
Abstract: Objective: To compare the motor relearning effect of a surface peroneal nerve stimulator (PNS) versus usual care on lower limb motor impairment, activity limitation, and quality of life among chronic stroke survivors.Design: Single-blinded randomized controlled trial.Setting: Teaching hospital of academic medical center.Participants: Chronic stroke survivors (N=110;>12wk poststroke) with unilateral hemiparesis and dorsiflexion strength of ≤4/5 on the Medical Research Council scale.Interventions: Subjects were stratified by motor impairment level and then randomly assigned to ambulation training with either a su...
Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - February 11, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Lynne R. Sheffler, Paul N. Taylor, Douglas D. Gunzler, Jaap H. Buurke, Maarten J. IJzerman, John Chae Tags: Journal-Based CME Article Source Type: research

Examination of Hospital Characteristics and Patient Quality Outcomes Using Four Inpatient Quality Indicators and 30-Day All-Cause Mortality
The study objective was to examine hospital mortality outcomes and structure using 2008 patient-level discharges from general community hospitals. Discharges from Florida administrative files were merged to the state mortality registry. A cross-sectional analysis of inpatient mortality was conducted using Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF), stroke, pneumonia, and all-payer 30-day postdischarge mortality. Structural characteristics included bed size, volume, ownership, teaching status, and system affiliation. Outcomes were risk adjusted using 3M APR-DRG....
Source: American Journal of Medical Quality - January 3, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Carretta, H. J., Chukmaitov, A., Tang, A., Shin, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research