News tagged with blood oxygen saturation
Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk o ...
Research team tests bedside monitoring of brain blood flow and metabolism in stroke victims
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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A University of Pennsylvania team has completed the first successful demonstration of a noninvasive optical device to monitor cerebral blood flow in patients with acute stroke, a leading cause of disability and death.
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Photoacoustics useful in cancer research
Dec 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Photoacoustics can be used to show the development of blood capillaries in and around a tumour. PhD student, Kiran Kumar Thumma, of the University of Twente (Netherlands) is the first to use ...
Music played to premature babies may lessen pain and improve feeding habits
May 27, 2009 |
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Music played to premature babies may help to reduce their pain and encourage better oral feeding, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Sleep apnea may be risk factor for sudden cardiac death
Nov 10, 2008 |
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After studying the sleep characteristics of nearly 11,000 adults in an overnight sleep laboratory, Mayo Clinic researchers suggest that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - and, in particular, the low nighttime oxygen saturation ...
Scientists discover new hemoglobin type
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemo-globin. Haemoglobin transports oxygen in the red blood corpuscles. When bound to oxygen it changes colour. The new haemoglobin type appears optically ...
Being overweight super-sizes both risk and consequences of sleep-disordered breathing
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Overweight individuals are not just at greater risk of having sleep-disordered-breathing (SDB), they are also likely to suffer greater consequences, according to new research.
New light on link between snoring and cognitive deficits in children
Oct 07, 2008 |
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About two-thirds of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB)— snoring or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)— have some degree of cognitive deficit, but the severity of the cognitive deficit has been notoriously difficult ...
Oxygen treatment hastens memory loss in Alzheimer's mice
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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A 65-year-old women goes into the hospital for routine hip surgery. Six months later, she develops memory loss and is later diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Just a coincidence? Researchers at the University of South ...
Study: Added oxygen during stroke reduces brain tissue damage
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Scientists have countered findings of previous clinical trials by showing that giving supplemental oxygen to animals during a stroke can reduce damage to brain tissue surrounding the clot.
MRI simulation of blood flow helps plan child's delicate heart surgery (w/ Video)
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, collaborating with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows ...
Study finds that obstructive sleep apnea causes earlier death in stroke patients
May 19, 2008 |
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Stroke victims who have obstructive sleep apnea die sooner than stroke victims who do not have sleep apnea or who have central sleep apnea, according to Swedish researchers, who will present their findings at the American ...
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