Glasgow Coma Scale: A simple tool to use when verbal component scores are missing
Credit: Copyright 2020 AANS. Charlottesville, VA (September 8, 2020). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
New surgical tools with smart sensors can advance cardiac surgery and therapy
A new class of medical instruments equipped with a soft electronics system improves diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in minimally invasive ...
COVID-19 patients suffer long-term lung and heart damage but it can improve with time
Coronavirus patients recover faster if they undergo rehabilitation as soon as possible after coming off ventilators or leaving intensive careCredit: ...
Unconventional T cells in severe COVID-19 patients could predict disease outcome
Credit: © 2020 Jouan et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20200872 Researchers in France have discovered that ...
Innovative biocontainment unit shows promise to protect healthcare workers
Credit: Courtesy photo The U.S. Army partnered with the University of Pittsburg Medical Center to create a biocontainment unit that ...
Wearable, portable invention offers options for treating antibiotic-resistant infections
Credit: Purdue University/Rahim Rahimi WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The rapid increase of life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infections has resulted in challenging wound ...
Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine names Dr. Beverly Hon winner of Ernest Bors Award
Beverly Hon, MD, is this year's winner of the Ernest Bors, MD Award for Scientific Development, the Journal's annual award ...
Wearable device could help EMTs, surgeons assess hemorrhage blood loss
Credit: Georgia Tech Emergency medical technicians (EMTs), military medics, and emergency room physicians could one day be better able to ...
Scoring system for the diagnosis of COVID-19
This Letter by Dr. Mohamed Farouk Allam is published in The Open Public Health Journal, Volume 13, 2020Credit: Dr. Mohamed ...
Asthma may not be a significant risk factor for severe COVID-19
Credit: ATS August 31, 2020-- A new research letter published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines ...
Additional data on blood thinner efficacy for COVID-19 and insight on best possible regimens
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Mount Sinai researchers were among the first to show that ...
Researchers unravel two mysteries of COVID-19
Published studies provide evidence for predicting how severe a patient's illness will become and why patients develop life-threatening blood clotsCredit: ...
Racial segregation drives disparities in COVID-19 and HIV diagnoses
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 26, 2020--Across the U.S., COVID-19 and HIV diagnoses are lowest ...
Socially isolated elderly more likely to use hospital and emergency room resources
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 25, 2020--Those over age 65 who self-reported as socially isolated ...
Virtual imaging trials optimize CT, radiography for coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Computational patient models and human phantom with coronavirus abnormalities via multidiagnostic confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 infection yield 'realistic' texture and shapeCredit: ...
New blood, new hope: Transfusions protect the brain from stroke damage
Credit: Greg Ellis/West Virginia University Muscle weakness permeates through one side of your body and your speech slurs. It's a ...
Metabolic syndrome linked to worse outcomes for COVID-19 patients
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were over three times more likely to die if they had metabolic syndromeCredit: Paula Burch-Celentano, Tulane ...
UVA-designed COVID-19 swab to support high-priority testing across Virginia
State to receive 60,000 swabs weeklyCredit: UVA Health The Commonwealth of Virginia will receive 60,000 nasopharyngeal swabs weekly to support ...
Wide variations in car seat breathing assessment conducted on premature newborns
UM School of Medicine researchers cite need for clearer guidelines to help hospitals implement consistent safety practicesCredit: NHTSA BALTIMORE, MD ...
Early NK cell-mediated immune response may contribute to severe COVID-19
Credit: Markus Marcetic Researchers may have come one step closer toward understanding how the immune system contributes to severe COVID-19. ...