Fewer than 60% of young women diagnosed with STIs in emergency departments fill scripts
Credit: Children's National WASHINGTON - Fewer than 60% of young women diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the emergency ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Avalanche Victims: When can rewarming lead to survival?
An international study led by Eurac Research draws up the criteria for correctly assessing the chances of survivalCredit: Eurac Research ...
Reinvent Motherisk to protect mothers and babies
Canada should reinvent the Motherisk program to support pregnant women to have healthy babies, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian ...
Licorice tea causes hypertensive emergency in patient
Licorice tea, a popular herbal tea, is not without health risks, as a case study of a man admitted to ...
New algorithm uses disease history to predict intensive care patients’ chances of survival
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have used data on more than 230,000 intensive care patients to develop ...
DOD awards Pitt, CMU contracts to create an autonomous robotic trauma care system
Credit: National Robotics Engineering Center and Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 22, 2019 - The University of Pittsburgh School of ...
Democratic sneaker design and ultrasonic car communications at UID19 — design talks and degree show
Get a sneak peek of the future when design students from all over the world show off their graduation projects ...
New study shows crowdsourced traffic data could save lives
App-users post crash alerts minutes before they are reported to CHP A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds, ...
Study finds lower ER triage scores associated with delayed antibiotics delivery for sepsis patients
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Providing early, appropriate antibiotic treatment for patients with sepsis -- a serious complication of infection that can ...
World’s first wearable kidney goal of USask-led research team
$250,000 in Canadian federal funding for 'innovative' researchCredit: Daniel Hallen, University of Saskatchewan An artificial portable kidney that patients who ...
Free-standing emergency departments in Texas’ big cities are not reducing congestion at hospitals
HOUSTON -- (May 20, 2019) - Free-standing emergency departments (EDs) in Texas' largest cities have not alleviated emergency room congestion ...
IU researchers develop electric field-based dressing to help heal wound infections
Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have found a way to charge up ...
New risk scores help physicians provide better care for high-risk pulmonary patients, study finds
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare A new laboratory-based method of estimating outcomes for patients with a severe pulmonary disorder that has no ...
Sedation and controlled paralysis do not improve survival of ICU patients with ARDS
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2019 - Reversibly paralyzing and heavily sedating hospitalized patients with severe breathing problems ...
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