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Transient unilateral weakness: is it a transient ischaemic attack?
This article highlights the diagnostic challenges in transient ischaemic attack with relevance to unilateral weakness.PMID:36454061 | DOI:10.12968/hmed.2022.0414
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - December 1, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Charles C Southey Jonathan Birns Peter Sommerville Ajay Bhalla Source Type: research
Investigation launched after B.C. father visits hospital 4 times before stroke diagnosis
Northern Health, which runs hospitals in northwest, B.C., is looking into why it took four hospital visits over four days for doctors to confirm that a Hazelton, B.C., man had suffered at least two strokes.
Source: CBC | Health - August 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Fragmented Ambulance Services in Sri Lanka Evolve into A Modern System
Fragmented ambulance services evolve into a modern system
Situated in the Indian Ocean, separated from India by the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka is the 25th largest island in the world (See Figure 1). Its complex geographical features-peaks, plateaus, valleys, rivers and tropical forests-are subject to a variety of natural hazards, including floods, landslides, cyclones and tsunamis.1
With ancient cultural roots going back to the 6th century B.C., Sri Lanka's modern colonial history began with Portuguese, Dutch and British settlements in the 16th century. By 1815, Britain was the sole colonial power. In 1948, Sri Lanka became an...
Source: JEMS Operations - November 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nuwan Chamara Ekanayaka, EMT-I Tags: International Operations Source Type: news
Trilobites: He Ate the World ’ s Hottest Pepper, Then Landed in the Hospital With ‘ Thunderclap ’ Headaches
After eating the Carolina Reaper during a contest, an unidentified patient suffered headaches so severe he was hospitalized. The symptoms resembled those of a stroke.
Source: NYT Health - April 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JAMES GORMAN Tags: Headaches British Medical Journal Henry Ford Hospital Cooperstown (NY) Guinness World Records (Book) Carolina Reaper Source Type: news
Fragmented Ambulance Services in Sri Lanka Evolve into A Modern System
Fragmented ambulance services evolve into a modern system
Situated in the Indian Ocean, separated from India by the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka is the 25th largest island in the world (See Figure 1). Its complex geographical features-peaks, plateaus, valleys, rivers and tropical forests-are subject to a variety of natural hazards, including floods, landslides, cyclones and tsunamis.1
With ancient cultural roots going back to the 6th century B.C., Sri Lanka's modern colonial history began with Portuguese, Dutch and British settlements in the 16th century. By 1815, Britain was the sole colonial power. In 1948, Sri Lanka became an...
Source: JEMS Operations - November 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nuwan Chamara Ekanayaka, EMT-I Tags: International Operations Source Type: news
Mitigating the damaging effects of tissue distortions by using a low-friction heel protector.
This article reports the finding of a small non-controlled evaluation over a 2-week period in three different care settings: a residential care home, an acute stroke unit and a community intermediate care hospital. At initial recruitment 30 patients were identified by clinical assessment as being at high risk of developing a heel pressure ulcer. Further inclusion criteria were identifying heels that had signs of pressure damage occurring, blanching and non-blanching erythema, blistering and category 2 ulceration. In all, 15 patients fully completed the evaluation over a 14-day period. The mean age was 86 years. The low-fri...
Source: British Journal of Nursing - June 27, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Schofield A Tags: Br J Nurs Source Type: research
Edwards Lifesciences wins CE Mark for Sapien 3 Ultra TAVR
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) said today it won CE Mark approval in the European Union for its Sapien 3 Ultra transcatheter aortic valve replacement system intended for patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis.
Despite winning a CE Mark, Edwards said that the new valve will not be launched in Germany due to a preliminary injunction from rival Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX). The company said that “the German court will hold a full hearing on the merits of the dispute” mid-next year, and that it is hopeful it will prevail.
The company said it will introduce the Sapien 3 Ultra in the rest of Europe as pa...
Source: Mass Device - November 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Cardiac Implants Cardiovascular Featured Regulatory/Compliance Replacement Heart Valves Edwards Lifesciences Source Type: news
Effects of Normothermic Machine Perfusion Conditions on Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
In this study the effect of NMP perfusion fluid on survival, metabolism and function of thawed cryopreserved human (h)MSC and porcine (p)MSC in suspension conditions was studied. Suspension conditions reduced the viability of pMSC by 40% in both perfusion fluid and culture medium. Viability of hMSC was reduced by suspension conditions by 15% in perfusion fluid, whilst no differences were found in survival in culture medium. Under adherent conditions, survival of the cells was not affected by perfusion fluid. The perfusion fluid did not affect survival of fresh MSC in suspension compared to the control culture medium. The f...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 9, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Pentraxin 3 in Cardiovascular Disease
Giuseppe Ristagno1*, Francesca Fumagalli1, Barbara Bottazzi2, Alberto Mantovani2,3,4, Davide Olivari1, Deborah Novelli1 and Roberto Latini1
1Department of Cardiovascular Research, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research IRCCS, Milan, Italy
2Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Milan, Italy
3Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
4The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
The long pentraxin PTX3 is a member of the pentraxin family produced locally by stromal and myeloid cells in response to proinflammatory signals and microbial moieties. The p...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 16, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Beta Amyloid Deposition Is Not Associated With Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease
In this study, we used a well-validated visual assessment to clinically rate scans as being amyloid positive or negative (38). As there is not an accepted threshold based on standardized centiloid reference regions, we defined an amyloid positivity centiloid cut-off threshold in our sample. Our cut-off (CL = 31.3, SUVR = 1.21) corresponds well to the estimated value proposed by Rowe and colleagues (34) in the context of AD (CL = 25–30), however our estimated threshold may be biased by the low number of Aβ positive patients.
Our results suggest a lower prevalence of amyloid-positive PDD individuals than in ...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 23, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
ICDs Have Come a Long Way in 40 Years
Michel Mirowski and his colleagues gave the field of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) a pretty good start, but what's more impressive is how far the technology has advanced since that first human ICD implant in February 1980. In the past 40 years we've seen ICDs become dramatically smaller, longer lasting, more capable, more personalized, subcutaneous (non-transvenous), and even MRI-firendly. And that's not to mention the advanced data connectivity and monitoring capabilities that the latest technologies offer. So without further ado, let's take a look at the current ICD landscape and the companie...
Source: MDDI - February 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Implants Source Type: news
Reducing delays to administration of prothrombin complex concentrate in patients with vitamin K antagonist-related intracerebral haemorrhage.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate is the first-line treatment in vitamin K antagonist-related intracerebral haemorrhage. Early administration is associated with improved patient outcomes. A quality improvement project investigated delays in prothrombin complex concentrate administration in vitamin K antagonist-related intracerebral haemorrhage in order to reduce the time from computed tomography scan confirming intracerebral haemorrhage to prothrombin complex concentrate administration (scan-to-needle time).
METHOD: Twenty patients were identified by retrospective audit ove...
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - February 1, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Marrinan E, Chen L, Werring D, Turner D Tags: Br J Hosp Med (Lond) Source Type: research
Introducing an oral care assessment tool with advanced cleaning products into a high-risk clinical setting.
This study aimed to establish whether the use of a 24-hour oral care kit and an oral care assessment tool can meet the needs of patients on an acute stroke unit. In comparison with the same period the preceding year, the introduction of the oral care kit and assessment tool improved compliance with oral care by more than 4 times; the overall costs of antibiotics to treat NV-HAP patients fell by 79%, with the number of doses falling by 70%, and the mortality rate decreased from 27% to 20%. According to a survey of multidisciplinary team (MDT) members keeping oral care tools available at the point of use saved time, and the ...
Source: British Journal of Nursing - March 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Chick A, Wynne A Tags: Br J Nurs Source Type: research
Techniques and approaches for revascularisation of left heart coronary diseases.
Abstract
Coronary artery disease and its associated clinical sequelae are a significant medical burden to clinicians and patients. Severe coronary artery disease presenting in the context of acute myocardial ischaemia, or stable plaques causing chronic symptoms despite best conservative and pharmacological intervention, are often amenable to further intervention such as coronary artery bypass grafting. This procedure has been extensively compared to newer and less invasive techniques, such as percutaneous coronary intervention, and other minimally invasive procedures such as robotic or endoscopic techniques. This ...
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - August 1, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Maskell P, Oo S, Muir AD, Fan KS, Harky A Tags: Br J Hosp Med (Lond) Source Type: research
Patient Care Falters as COVID-19 Devastates L.A. County (CA) Hospitals
Soumya Karlamangla, Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money
Los Angeles Times
(MCT)
Los Angeles County’s healthcare system was buckling Wednesday under the unprecedented surge of COVID-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures as they brace for conditions to worsen in the coming weeks.
With hospitals overwhelmed by patients and no outlet valve available, doctors, nurses and paramedics are being forced to make wrenching choices about who gets care and at what level.
“No one would believe this is in the United States,” ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed California EMS Hospital Paramedic Source Type: news
