Once in short supply, neonatal intensive care units (NICU) are indispensable life savers for critically ill newborns, typically born premature with very low birth weight. But a new Dartmouth report finds that, following a robust national expansion of NICUs over the last two decades, nearly half of all newborns admitted to U.S. NICUs are of normal birth…
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) defined as a bump, blow or jolt to the head that disrupts normal brain function sent 2.5 million people in the U.S. to the emergency room in 2014, according to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, researchers report a self-assembling peptide hydrogel that; when injected into…
The newly developed “STROKE Perception Report” is a valid and reliable tool for evaluating the quality of hospital care for acute stroke, reports a study in the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, official journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer. Focusing on the three most important…
In late August 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake the strongest east of the Mississippi since 1944 shook Washington, D.C., with such force that it cracked the Washington Monument and damaged the National Cathedral. On the sixth floor of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children’s National in Washington, D.C., staff felt the hospital swaying…
Millions of people worldwide suffer from traumatic brain injury each year, and in some severe cases; injured individuals arrive at the hospital in a coma. New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) sheds light on which connections between brain regions may be severed in such cases. The findings are publish in the…
More than 70% of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and deaths around the world may be attributed to a small number of common but modifiable risk factors. A large international study, involving more than 155,000 people in 21 countries, has found some of the risks are the same around the world, such as hypertension or low education,…
Early intensive vasodilation does not improve 180-day all-cause mortality and rehospitalization in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure, according to late breaking results of the GALACTIC trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. Acute heart failure is the most common diagnosis in the emergency department…
Giving trauma patients with severe blood loss the hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP) cut the volume of blood products require to stabilize them by half, according to results of a new, first-of-its-kind clinical trial from Penn Medicine. The finding, published online this week in JAMA Surgery, suggests that administering AVP to trauma patients with severe bleeding…
As the author of 11 books about education, Allison Zmuda has long been a highly sought speaker about approaches to learning. Yet after giving countless speeches to teachers and school districts about the best ways to help students become more self direct learners; she encounter perhaps her most challenging pupil. A stroke at 38 left…
Critically ill children who experience severe hyperoxemia in the pediatric ICU may have a higher risk for in-hospital mortality, according to data published in JAMA Network Open. In the retrospective cohort study conducted over 10 years in a pediatric ICU, the researchers found an independent association between severe hyperoxemia, defined as a partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2)…
The shipping industry is vital to the existence of the global trade economy, yet seafarers face one of the highest risks of workplace injury or death. Understanding the causes and reducing the frequency of occupational injuries not only benefits the seafarers but directly benefits the shipping companies by reducing premiums, liabilities and legal costs. Risk…
Brain Trauma; When a child suffers a head trauma, medical professionals are in high gear to prevent further damage to a developing brain. Measuring and regulating the child’s level of carbon dioxide is critical to ensuring the brain is getting enough blood oxygen to prevent a secondary brain injury. High carbon dioxide can increase intracranial…