New Drug May Reduce Heart Attack Damage
- ICU
- 27/07/2009
The drug, known as Dz13, specifically targets and neutralises the gene responsible for inflammation and muscle death in the aftermath of a heart...
READ MOREThe drug, known as Dz13, specifically targets and neutralises the gene responsible for inflammation and muscle death in the aftermath of a heart...
READ MOREThe relationship between doctors and drug companies has been the subject of intense scrutiny in recent years, with some commentators arguing that...
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READ MOREThe findings, published June 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that routine early transfer of patients after clot-busting drugs...
READ MOREThe new Zeus Infinity Empowered (IE) provides seamless integration of ventilation, volatile and intravenous anaesthesia, patient monitoring and information management in a single, elegant solution. ICU-quality ventilation, Target controlled anaesthesia and an intuitive and simple user interface design philosophy are just some of the innovative...
READ MOREIntroduction It is estimated that 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events occur annually in the United States (Institutes of Medicine 2006) and have led to 177 billion dollars in estimated costs (Ernst and Grizzle 2001). The intensive care unit (ICU) and emergency department (ED) are particularly complicated considering the level of patient...
READ MOREThe disclosure of medical harm is now the standard of care. The ICU environment challenges clinicians to recognise and disclose adverse events affecting critically ill patients. This article reviews the literature on adverse events and offers suggestions for disclosing medical harm. Introduction It is now well established that patients commonly...
READ MOREIt has been described as the beginning of a new era in the US; one of change with a push towards equality and balance among citizens. Critics of the new President and his proposed platform have even gone so far as to call it a "socialist agenda" (Daily Herald – Utah; November 1, 2008). Given this pretence, are we to expect the birth of universal healthcare...
READ MORENurses have a genuine impact on patient safety. Studies have found a link between patient safety and RN staffing and an increase rate of error when the hospital nursing staff with a smaller proportion of RNs (Ramsey 2005). Other studies have shown that increasing the nurse to patient ratio by 1 can significantly impact the 30-day mortality in surgical...
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