News tagged with intravenous fluids
New trial casts doubt on role of zinc supplements in diarrhea treatment
May 05, 2009 |
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Zinc supplementation can be ineffective in the treatment of diarrhea. A randomised controlled trial published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has shown that supplementation with either zinc or zinc and copper is no ...
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IV drug treatment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may not improve long-term survival
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Patients with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who received intravenous (IV) drug administration during treatment, recommended in life support guidelines, had higher rates of short term survival but no statistically significant ...
Ondansetron reduces vomiting, hospital admissions in children with gastroenteritis
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 02, 2008 |
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have demonstrated that a drug called ondansetron helps reduce vomiting, the need for intravenous fluids and hospital admissions in children with acute gastroenteritis.
Chemical can reproduce complications for some patients
May 01, 2009 |
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Medical science took a giant leap forward with the development of techniques that, at least temporarily, perform the function of vital organs. These processes, including the use of the heart-lung machine and renal dialysis, ...
Are intravenous treatments safe? New research raises doubts
Aug 31, 2009 |
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German scientists have identified a serious and previously misunderstood contaminant that brings the safety and efficacy of intravenous treatments into question. In a report published in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of ...
Hyperviscous fluids: Better treatment for severe blood loss
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Intravenous administration of isotonic fluids is the standard emergency treatment in the U.S. for patients with severe blood loss, but UC San Diego bioengineering researchers have reported improved resuscitation ...
Study: New treatment may combat drug-resistant flu
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new and unlicensed treatment for swine flu could be used in patients who have Tamiflu-resistant viruses, doctors say. In an article published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, British doctors describe how they ...
An advance in solving the mysterious machine-workers' disease
May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists in Ohio are reporting a long-awaited advance toward making the workplace safer for more than one million machinists in the United States who may be exposed to disease-causing bacteria in contaminated ...
End-of-life preferences appear to remain stable as health declines
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Most individuals' preferences regarding life-sustaining treatment do not appear to change over a three-year period, regardless of declines in physical and mental health, according to a report in the October 27 issue of Archives of ...
New clinical equation accurately measures kidney function in children
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Measuring a child's kidney function has traditionally been time-consuming, costly, and difficult to perform, but a new equation that uses parameters collected at routine office visits can effectively accomplish this, according ...
Antibiotic may be new stroke treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2009 |
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The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic efficacy of the drug in animal models.
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