News tagged with emergency deliveries


Regional blocks superior to general anesthesia for cesarean section

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

General anesthesia (GA) is associated with an increased risk of infant intubation and low Apgar scores, relative to regional anesthesia. An analysis of 50,806 cesarean deliveries, published in the open access journal BMC Me ...





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Pediatrics: Kids need specialized care in hospital emergency departments

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to a recent IOM report, only 6 percent of U.S. hospital emergency departments are fully equipped to properly care for children. With high rates of novel H1N1 (swine) flu expected this winter, the time to address ...


New mathematical model more accurately diagnoses acute heart failure in emergency rooms

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have developed the first mathematical model in cardiology and emergency medicine to more quickly and reliably diagnose acute heart failure (AHF) in emergency room patients. Research findings ...


Calling it in: New emergency medical service system may predict caller's fate

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algori ...


Fixing the flaw in emergency planning

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Emergency response plans must include knowledge from the people who need to be protected if these plans are to help communities respond effectively to threats, write Drs. Roz Lasker, Noni MacDonald and Editor-in-Chief Paul ...


Majority of unintended incidents in the ER are caused by human error

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sixty percent of the causes of unintended incidents in the emergency department that could have compromised patient safety are related to human failures, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Me ...


Where physician completed obstetrical residency may provide quality-of-care indicator

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients found these rankings consistent across individual types of complications, suggesting that these ...


Health information exchange conquers new frontier: Emergency medical services

Health information exchange conquers new frontier: Emergency medical services

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Emergency medical responders typically know very little about the patients they treat at mass disasters, accident scenes, or other sites where an ambulance is dispatched for rapid response. That's true everyplace ...


Emergency Departments Do Not Provide Timely Care for All Patients

Emergency Departments Do Not Provide Timely Care for All Patients

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, Yale University researchers document a disturbing lack of consistency among U.S. hospitals in how quickly they treat patients in emergency rooms. Furthermore, some hospitals ...


Web tool helps advise when flu needs a doctor

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use.


Good news on multiple sclerosis and pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A new study shows that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are only slightly more likely to have cesarean ...



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