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Stroke survivors and their ' savers ' call on people to act F.A.S.T. as part of NHS campaign
The call is part of NHS campaign to increase public awareness of signs of stroke. This follows survey which found 59% adults in England were not aware stroke is 4th highest cause of death in UK& 39% did not recognise stroke as a medical emergency that requires urgent attention.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Research provides reassurance about the safety of testosterone treatment
Treatment with testosterone (the primary male sex hormone) does not increase the risk of heart attack, stroke or other diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease), research found. The treatment was safe when given for less than a year to men with low levels of testosterone ( 2 External 0 0 0 hypogonadism false https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/male-menopause/#:~:text=Hypogonadism%20is%20sometimes%20present%20from,the%20%22male%20menopause%22%20symptoms. false false%>). Longer term follow up is ongoing.
Men with hypogonadism can experience loss of muscle mass, sexual problems, and reduced quality of life....
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - February 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Guidelines for virtual home assessment tools
Virtual home assessments could reduce the need for in-person visits. New guidelines could help people develop and use the tools they need to carry out these assessments. Home assessments are for people who struggle to do everyday activities because of disabilities, for example, after having a stroke. These people may require handrails or other adjustments to their home. Researchers in Sheffield worked with service users and local healthcare professionals (including occupational therapists and social workers) to evaluate the pros and cons of virtual home assessments. The service users and allied health professionals gave fe...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
On prioritising global health ' s triple crisis of sepsis, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: a mixed-methods study from Malawi.
Conclusion Our analysis revealed strong relationships between in-hospital mortality and hospital case volume in hospitals treating a small number of cases. The nonlinearity and nonm onotonicity of the estimated relationships indicate that studies applying conventional statistical approaches like logistic regression should consider these relationships adequately.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
On prioritising global health ' s triple crisis of sepsis, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: a mixed-methods study from Malawi
Conclusion
Our analysis revealed strong relationships between in-hospital mortality and hospital case volume in hospitals treating a small number of cases. The nonlinearity and nonm onotonicity of the estimated relationships indicate that studies applying conventional statistical approaches like logistic regression should consider these relationships adequately.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
RightCare Stroke Toolkit
This toolkit provides Integrated Stroke Delivery Networks and local stroke services with key actions to guide service improvement in a number of pathway specific areas as well as across pathway system improvement priority areas.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hospital outcomes for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension in sepsis and septic shock.
Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality risk. The risk for adverse outcomes in patients with PAH in sepsis or septic shock (SSS) is uncertain.
Methods: Adult patients diagnosed with SSS were identified in the National Readmissions Database over the years 2016-2017. A 2:1 ratio nearest propensity matching method was employed for several demographic, social, and clinical variables. In-hospital outcomes were compared between patients with PAH and those without, using t-test and chi-squared test as appropriate. Patients with cardiogenic shock were excluded. Releva...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Home-to-hospital distance and outcomes among community-acquired sepsis hospitalizations
Conclusions: Among a national sample of community-acquired sepsis hospitalizations, there was no significant association between home-to-hospital distance and either 30-day mortality or SOFA score on hospital presentation.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Saving Brains
Report highlights thrombectomy is a game-changing treatment for stroke but isn ' t available for everyone who needs it (~10% stroke patients), is subject to postcode lottery& in 2020/21,~80% (5889) patients in England missed out. Rolling it out fully could save UK £ 73m per year.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Benefits of esmolol in adults with sepsis and septic shock: An updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Conclusions: Esmolol treatment may be safe and effective in decreasing 28-day mortality, controlling heart rate, and providing cardioprotective function, but has no effect on lung injury in patients with sepsis or septic shock after early fluid resuscitation. Improvement in cardiac function may be related to changes in serum inflammatory mediators. No significant adverse effects on tissue perfusion and oxygen utilization were observed.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Clostridium difficile Infection Does Not Impact Outcomes in Stroke Patients
This study investigates incidence, patient characteristics, clinical features, and outcomes of CDI following stroke, including ischemic stroke (IS), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).;
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Transforming Lives, Raising Productivity
Report, commissioned by pharmaceutical industry, estimates 1.2 million NHS patients are eligible for 13 medicines across 4 treatment areas – stroke prevention, renal disease, asthma& type 2 diabetes but not receiving them.. Extending use would provide 429,000 additional QALYs.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sepsis-driven atrial fibrillation and ischaemic stroke. Is there enough evidence to recommend anticoagulation?
Sepsis can lead to cardiac arrhythmias, of which the most common is atrial fibrillation (AF). Sepsis is associated with up to a six-fold higher risk of developing AF, where it occurs most commonly in the first 3 days of hospital admission. In many patients, AF detected during sepsis is the first documented episode of AF, either as an unmasking of sub-clinical AF or as a newly developed arrhythmia. In the short term, sepsis that is complicated by AF leads to longer hospital stays and an increased risk of inpatient mortality. Sepsis-driven AF can also increase an individual ' s risk of inpatient stroke by nearly 3-fold, comp...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
National service model for an integrated community stroke service, NHS England (published /updated 28th February 2022)
The integrated community stroke service (ICSS) is part of the National Stroke Service model, coordinating transfer of care of stroke survivors from hospital, and providing home-based stroke rehabilitation through a specialist multidisciplinary team structure. The ICSS is an integrated seven days per week service, providing early supported discharge, high-intensive and needs-based community stroke rehabilitation and disability management.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
