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Guardian Availability in Children Evaluated in the Emergency Department for Blunt Head Trauma
Background: Enrolling children in research studies in the emergency department (ED) is typically dependent on the presence of a guardian to provide written informed consent.Objectives: The objectives were to determine the rate of guardian...
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Call for QOF admissions targets
The authors are also calling for the number of indicators in the QOF to be cut as part of the process of securing greater value for money.The review of the QOF by social policy think-tank Civitas comes at a critical time, with NICE...
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Milwaukee, Wis. New Rabies Treatment Works For Boy, 15
A 15-year-old boy from Brazil who contracted rabies from the bite of a vampire bat is recovering after doctors used a novel treatment developed at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.The treatment involves a regimen of drug therapies and a...
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Diagnostic and prognostic use of bispectral index in coma, vegetative state and related disorders
Schnakers C et al.- EEG-BIS recording is an interesting additional method to help in the diagnosis as well as in the prognosis of severely brain injured patients recovering from coma. Diagnostic and prognostic use of bispectral...
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California judge rules only nurses can give insulin to kids
15--A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major shift in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with diabetes.Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses Organization, the American Nurses...
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Court ruling marks shift in treatment of Calif. schoolchildren with diabetes
SACRAMENTO, Calif.A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major shift in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with diabetes. Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses Organization, the...
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Girl whose struggle with cancer touched many of us has died
Kerry Magana died Thursday morning, her life a testament to the difference a stranger can make.The 15-year-old had been ill with leukemia for two years. In September, she received a bone marrow transplant. But the disease and the...
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Court ruling marks shift in treatment of Calif. schoolchildren with diabetes
advertisement SACRAMENTO, Calif.A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major shift in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with diabetes. Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses...
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Court ruling marks shift in treatment of Calif. schoolchildren with diabetes
SACRAMENTO, Calif.A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major shift in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with diabetes? Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses Organization, the...
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Two drug chains to provide Rx translation services
14--Last year, Irania Sanchez took medications to treat her diabetes and depression and woke up from a coma three days later in a hospital.Sanchez, 40, of Brooklyn, also takes drugs for asthma, high blood pressure and cholesterol.
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Pharmacies will provide prescription information in many languages
Last year, Irania Sanchez took medications to treat her diabetes and depression and woke up from a coma three days later in a hospital.Sanchez, 40, of Brooklyn, N.Y., also takes drugs for asthma, high blood pressure and cholesterol....
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Girl whose struggle with cancer touched many of us has died
Kerry Magana died Thursday morning, her life a testament to the difference a stranger can make.</p><p>The 15-year-old had been ill with leukemia for two years.In September, she received a bone marrow transplant...
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Cranial computed tomographic findings in a large group of children with drowning: Diagnostic, prognostic, and
Rafaat KT et al.- The CT findings and the presenting Glasgow Coma Scale of patients with drowning differ from those of patients who have suffered abusive head trauma. Cranial computed tomographic findings in a large group of...
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Headache Secondary to Epidural Abscess
The authors are affiliated with the department ment of pediatrics, division of infectious diseases, at Childrens Hospital at Montefiore and at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.Dr Douvoyiannis is a fellow in pediatric...
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Liverpool News: Machine 'killed Royal Hospital patient'
FAULTY equipment at Liverpools Royal Hospital may have led to the death of a patient, the Daily Post can reveal.An investigation is under way after a patient died during a procedure at Liverpool's main hospital trust. The family of the...
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Brain Drain
Rachel Clark could see the patient through the glass walls of the Massachusetts General Hospital intensive-care unit.A young woman lay on the bed, unconscious. The girls mother sat next to her, stroking her head. Just minutes earlier...
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Benadryl Itch Stopping Gel goes on the body, not into the mouth. Don't swallow it
The U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to alert consumers and healthcare professionals that one of the topical products, Benadryl Itch Stopping Gel, has been involved in several cases of accidental oral ingestion. This product...
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Hospital-acquired diabetic complications: How pharmacists can help prevent them
Identify elevated blood glucose levels Establish a multidisciplinary team Implement structured protocols Create educational programs Plan the patient's transition to outpatient care Medicare paid hospitals close to $50 million in 2007 to...
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The delirium with the intensive care
Skrobik Y - The association between clinical delirium manifestations requires screening with scales validated in mechanically ventilated patients like the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) or the Confusion Assessment Method...
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Novel Transplant Eases Infant's Rare Genetic Disorder
Within hours of taking his first breath on Aug.1, unknown to everyone around him, Destin Hamilton was getting sicker by the minute. The newborn had a genetic defect creating a dangerously high ammonia level that typically leads to brain...
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Pensioner airlifted to hospital after Goosnargh crash
A woman in her 60s was airlifted to hospital after her car turned on its side in Goosnargh yesterday.Fire crews had to cut the woman, who has not been named, from the Peugeot 206 after she lost control on a bend in Syke House Lane at...
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Cancer claims 'Jurassic Park' author at age 66
Science-based plots made millions for Harvard grad Posted 17 hours ago As Tom Clancy is to war, Michael Crichton was to science -almost transcendant in his knowledge of the state-of- the-art and his ability to transform it into reader...
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Fundraiser to help Avon Lake boy with rare condition
A spaghetti dinner will be 4 to 9 p.m.Saturday at the North Ridgeville American Legion on Sugar Ridge Road to raise money to help with medical expenses that total hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Haydens great-uncle Dan...
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Perioperative PP control prudent to avoid adverse CABG outcomes
MedWire News: Just a small rise in pulse pressure (PP) during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) predicts adverse cerebral and cardiac events after surgery, say US researchers.In patients undergoing CABG surgery, critical decisions...
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Writer, director Crichton succumbs to cancer at 66
LOS ANGELES Michael Crichton, the doctor-turned-author of bestselling thrillers such as The Terminal Man and Jurassic Park, has died.He was 66. Crichton died in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a courageous and private battle against cancer...
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