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Family members of critically ill patients want to discuss loved ones' uncertain prognoses
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Critically ill patients frequently have uncertain prognoses, but their families overwhelmingly wish that physicians would address prognostic uncertainty candidly, according to a new study out of the University of San Francisco ...
Findings challenge common practice regarding glucose control for critically ill patients
Aug 26, 2008 |
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An analysis of randomized trials indicates that for critically ill adults, tight glucose control is not associated with a significantly reduced risk of death in the hospital, but is associated with an increased risk of hypoglycemia, ...
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Intensive insulin therapy may be harmful to the critically ill
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Doubt has been cast over the current practice of administering intensive insulin therapy to all critically ill patients, according to a study published this week in the open access journal Critical Care. In certain groups ...
New study set to change how critically ill patients are treated
Mar 24, 2009 |
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The current practice of intensively lowering blood glucose in critically ill patients increases the risk of death by 10%. Results of the largest trial of intensive glucose lowering in critically ill patients published today ...
Intensive insulin therapy protects kidneys in critically ill patients
Jan 30, 2008 |
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For critically ill patients, intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to keep blood sugar (glucose) at normal levels reduces the risk of acute kidney injury, reports a study in the March Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Critical illness from 2009 H1N1 in Mexico associated with high fatality rate
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Critical illness from 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Mexico occurred among young patients, was associated with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and shock, and had a fatality rate of about 40 percent, according to a study ...
Popular stomach acid reducer triples risk of developing pneumonia
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A popular stomach-acid reducer used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients needing breathing machine support increases the risk of those patients contracting pneumonia threefold, according to researchers at Wake ...
Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record
Jan 07, 2009 |
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The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...
Hospital diabetes care standards not met by US academic medical centers
Jan 13, 2009 |
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A benchmarking study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine evaluated contemporary hospital glycemic management in United States academic medical centers, determining glucose control practices are suboptimal and do ...
Old red blood cells may double mortality in trauma patients
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Severe trauma patients requiring a major transfusion are twice as likely to die if they receive red blood cells stored for a month or longer, according to research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Ca ...
Running out of treatments: The problem superbugs resistant to everything
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Doctors are running out of treatments for today’s trauma victims and critically ill patients because of infections due to drug resistant microbes – even after resorting to using medicines thrown out 20 years ago because of ...
Early, aggressive treatment recommended for critically ill patients with hematological malignancy
Aug 24, 2009 |
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A study of 7,689 admissions from 178 adult intensive care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has revealed the factors associated with a higher mortality rate in haematological malignancy. Researchers writing in ...
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