Coronavirus-infected patients needing emergency surgery: Anesthesia standards
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc,, publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 16, 2020--Physicians describe the standardized procedure of surgical anesthesia for ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Survey shows emergency physicians may benefit from training on safely handling firearms
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- Emergency physicians may benefit ...
DARPA awards $22 million to create ‘smart’ device for healing large muscle wounds
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, March 11, 2020 - A multi-institution research team led by the University of Pittsburgh secured a $22 ...
Music shows promise in decreasing delirium in critically ill patients
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - It is common for critically ill patients on life support to develop delirium, a form ...
SARS influencing response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Singapore
AJR details how Singapore General Hospital responded to the SARS outbreak of 2003, including a thorough list of 43 ground ...
Individual response to COVID-19 ‘as important’ as government action
Credit: Reprinted from The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30567-5, Anderson et al., Figure 1, How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of ...
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
Chest CTs have low rate of misdiagnosis and can standardize imaging features and transformation rules for rapid diagnosis, yet modality ...
Better planning could save millions in health care costs
Credit: PxHere EAST LANSING, Mich. - Nearly 30% of the $3.6 trillion spent on health care costs in the United ...
Chinese researchers detail chest CT findings in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia
Most patients have ground-glass opacities (GGO) or mixed GGO and consolidation and vascular enlargement in the lesion--lesion likely to have ...
IU scientists study link between energy levels, spinal cord injury
Credit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS--Each year, thousands of people in the United States experience a spinal cord injury, damaging ...
American Journal of Roentgenology names Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD next editor in chief
Dr. Rosenkrantz will become just the 13th editor in chief of the 113-year-old 'yellow journal' of radiology in July 2020Credit: ...
AJR: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) imaging features overlap with SARS and MERS
COVID-19's imaging features are variable and nonspecific, but the imaging findings reported thus far do show "significant overlap" with those ...
Rare disease in children: the key role of a protein revealed
Canadian scientists take one step closer towards a better understanding of Batten disease Credit: Stéphane Lefrançois, INRS Laval, February 28 ...
A new strategy to prevent the most aggressive tumors from generating resistance to chemotherapy
This strategy can open new avenues to improve the effectiveness of therapies in thousands of patients who are currently being ...
New book on tracking, monitoring disease outbreaks, including COVID-19
Credit: Virginia Tech A Virginia Tech statistician has co-authored a timely new book that touches on the recent novel coronavirus ...
Mortality decreased with further treatment for opioid use disorder after detox
Credit: Boston Medical Center Boston - A new study shows that people with opioid use disorder who enter inpatient medically ...
Research shows new drug helps to preserve brain cells for a time after stroke
UCalgary led international study shows promising results for neuroprotection by combining endovascular therapy with nerinetideCredit: Photo by Roth & Ramberg ...
Scientists may have a way to let preemies breath easier
Study finds biological process that helps underdeveloped lungs fight infectionsCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - The continuing epidemic of pre-term births ...
MCG physicians working to improve emergency care in rural Georgia
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Emergency medicine physicians at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University are ...
World’s first bedside MRI system receives FDA 510(k) clearance
Novel MRI system is a breakthrough in patient accessibility and costCredit: (c) Hyperfine Research, Inc. GUILFORD, Conn., February 12, 2020 ...