New approach helps EMTs better assess chest pain en route to hospital
Credit: Wake Forest Baptist WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 7, 2020 - Is this person with chest pain having a heart ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Emerging field of integrative palliative care highlighted in journal special issue
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY -- An emerging field characterized as "combining the natural synergy between ...
Examining primary health care for patients with mental illness
Credit: University of Ottawa For those living with serious mental illness, ensuring primary care providers do not overlook their chronic ...
Pitt trauma experts aim to reduce deaths by providing blood-clotting agent
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5, 2020 - Severely injured trauma patients who received a blood-clotting drug before arriving at the ...
DECT in the ED: better diagnoses, less follow-up, more savings
Dual-energy CT adds value to routine interpretation of emergency department imaging studies by increasing radiologists' diagnostic confidence, leading to a ...
Cardiac arrest, poor survival rates common in sickest patients with COVID-19
Credit: Stephanie King/ Michigan Medicine Even when a sudden cardiac arrest happens inside a top hospital, where a code blue ...
Computer model shows how COVID-19 could lead to runaway inflammation
Credit: Serkan Eldeleklio?lu PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29, 2020 - A study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cedars-Sinai ...
Thousands of excess deaths from cardiovascular disease during the COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: University of Leeds A major new study has identified 2085 excess deaths in England and Wales due to heart ...
Last-resort life support option helped majority of critically ill COVID-19 patients survive
ECMO outcomes study at experienced centers suggests key role for treating worst-hit patients as pandemic continuesCredit: University of Michigan It ...
Hypercoagulability in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Because COVID-19 may present with medium to large arterial and venous abdominal and extremity macrothrombi, radiologists should raise concern for ...
Building a better stroke diagnosis
Scientist at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing leads work to identify biomarkers in blood that can indicate often-missed minor ...
AI could expand healing with bioscaffolds
Rice University engineers use machine learning to speed bioscaffold developmentCredit: Mikos Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 21, 2020) - ...
Potential new drug to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 infection consequences
Researchers at the University of Malaga study how '4-PBA' treatment modulates the inflammatory response in severe cases of COVID-19Credit: University ...
Stroke patients with COVID-19 have increased inflammation, stroke severity and death
This study of ischemic stroke patients is the first to associate the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in patients with COVID-19 and ischemic ...
Rapid blood test could detect brain injury in minutes, study shows
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17, 2020 - A blood protein test could detect the severity of head trauma in under ...
Cool eyes on fever screening: Optimizing infrared thermography
Full-face readings can optimize fever screening with infrared thermographsCredit: Image credit Q. Wang Thermography has been a hot topic this ...
DNA webs may drive lung pathology in severe COVID-19
Credit: © 2020 Radermecker et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20201012 Sticky webs of DNA released from ...
Telehealth scales up during the pandemic to offer patient care in the safety of the home
The Medical University of South Carolina rapidly adapted telehealth technologies to meet the needs of its patients during the pandemic, ...
Cellular-level interactions that lead to the cytokine storm in COVID-19
Credit: Ryo Otsuka, Ken-ichiro Seino. Inflammation and Regeneration. August 6, 2020. Scientists review macrophage activation syndrome -- a feature of ...
MIT press first reads series continues with ‘Viruses, pandemics, and immunity’
From MIT's Arup K. Chakraborty and immunologist Andrey ShawCredit: The MIT PRESS, 2020. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. ...