New cause of COVID-19 blood clots identified
Credit: Stephanie King/ Michigan Medicine Blood clots continue to wreak havoc for patients with severe COVID-19 infection, and a new ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Mobile smartphone technology is associated with better clinical outcomes for OHCA
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- Mobile smartphone technology can ...
Amount of COVID viral RNA detected at hospital admission predicts how patients will fare
Credit: American Thoracic Society Oct. 29, 2020-- A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society ...
Radical diagnostic could save millions of people at risk of dying from blood loss
Credit: Monash University / BioPRIA - In a world-first, engineers at Monash University in Australia have developed a diagnostic that ...
New £1.1m study to assess impact of bar/club opening hours on emergency services
Credit: University of Stirling A new £1.1 million study led by the University of Stirling is seeking to understand recent ...
Rising opioid use during pandemic heightens need for safe drug disposal
UH Pharmacy professor receives $3.3 million grant for safe medication disposal education, researchCredit: University of Houston During the global coronavirus ...
Biomarkers could be used in a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 blood screening tool
Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A new study from Lawson Health Research Institute, Western University and University ...
Ultrasounds show impact of COVID-19 on the heart
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Cardiac ultrasounds (also known as echocardiograms) are providing a view of the heart and the ...
Real-time opioid overdose tracking system helps show rise after COVID-19’s arrival
Suspected overdose deaths and naloxone rescue attempts by EMS up sharply in Michigan compared with 2019; first responders and public ...
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. to publish Journal of Correctional Health Care
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 23, 2020--The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) (https://www.ncchc.org/) ...
COVID-19: Dexamethasone discovery carries treatment implications
Credit: Courtesy Marcin Minor A new discovery about how the body transports dexamethasone, a drug that can increase the survival ...
Global MRI data offers hope for improving treatment of brain injuries
Building big datasets can make for more breakthroughs in treatmentCredit: Olsen et al., Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2020 Traumatic brain ...
Spectral CT improves detection of early-stage coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Spectral CT with electron density imaging improves assessment of lung lesion extent in patients with RT-PCR-confirmed COVID-19Credit: American Roentgen Ray ...
Boron nitride nanofilms for protection from bacterial and fungal infections
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS NUST MISIS material scientists have presented antibacterial nano-coatings based on boron nitride, which are highly effective ...
Body MRI reinterpretations plagued by discrepancies and errors
Secondary interpretations of body MR images at tertiary care centers identify high rate of discrepancies, with cognitive error types predominating, ...
Temple researchers take aim at role of cardiac protein in sepsis, ID’ing new therapies
Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - Each year, some 270,000 Americans die from sepsis, in which the release ...
New blood test predicts which COVID-19 patients will develop severe infection
Test could inform doctors on best treatment optionsCredit: Ray Lohan Wednesday, 14 October 2020: Scientists have developed, for the first ...
University of Cincinnati researcher examines genetic role in addiction
Study is among the first to examine methods of preventing opioid use disorderCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative + Brand In one ...
WVU receives $1.2 million telehealth grant to connect rural ERs with medical specialists
Credit: West Virginia University Rural emergency departments often lack the medical specialists who staff larger, urban hospitals. Yet rural patients ...
Pulmonary artery thrombosis a complication of radiation therapy
Imaging findings of in situ pulmonary artery thrombosis associated with radiation therapy are different from acute pulmonary emboli and do ...