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Md. doctor: Kidney transplant record achieved
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting ...
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Latex banned at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Jan 18, 2008 |
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The landmark Baltimore hospital where latex gloves were invented has become the first major medical institution in the United States to ban latex products.
Johns Hopkins leads first 12-patient, multicenter 'domino donor' kidney transplant
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City successfully completed Saturday the first six-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant. ...
Statewide study confirms 'paperless' hospitals are better for patients
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly.
Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped device ...
Averting postsurgical infections in kids: Give antibiotics within hour before first incision
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery, suggests a Johns Hopkins study to be published in the August issue ...
Unequal access: Hispanic children rarely get top-notch care for brain tumors
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Hispanic children diagnosed with brain tumors get high-quality treatment at hospitals that specialize in neurosurgery far less often than other children with the same condition, potentially compromising their immediate prognosis ...
Diagnostic errors: The new focus of patient safety experts
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. ...
Muscle weakness a common side effect of long stays in intensive care units
Oct 27, 2009 |
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After decades of focusing on the management of respiratory failure, circulatory shock and severe infections that lead to extended stays in hospital intensive care units, critical care researchers are increasingly turning ...
Heart transplants: Do more or do none, study suggests
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Heart surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence to support further tightening rather than easing of standards used to designate hospitals that are best at performing heart transplants.
Medical students regularly stuck by needles, often fail to report injuries
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Medical students are commonly stuck by needles -- putting them at risk of contracting potentially dangerous blood-borne diseases -- and many of them fail to report the injuries to hospital authorities, according to a Johns ...
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