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Department on Aging warns seniors to prepare homes and get flu shots
sponsored by Quiznos [] SPRINGFIELD -- To prepare for this year's cold winter weather, Director Charles D.Johnson urges older people and their families to recognize that winter poses a special threat to seniors. Topping the winter 'to...
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Motor Response Not a Reliable Outcome Predictor After Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest
_ Motor Response Not a Reliable Outcome Predictor After Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest.
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Scientists Find New Way to Kill Pain
For this project, researchers developed about 200 compounds in an attempt to block an enzyme called monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL).If the enzyme is blocked, it would allow 2-AG to build up, thereby reducing pain. Out of the 200...
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Alzheimer Society's Online Registry And Free Training Courses Help To Save Lives
When someone with Alzheimer's disease becomes lost, finding them quickly is key to preventing a tragedy.In fact, research has shown that if the person is not found within 12 hours of last being seen, there is a 50 per cent chance that...
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Perioperative hypothermia guidance launched
The RCN has published new guidance on inadvertent perioperative hypothermia in adults.Available exclusively on the RCN website, the guidance indicates the optimal clinical and cost-effective management of adult surgical patients in...
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Hypothermia Prevention
Medical Author: M Medical Revising Editor: The body maintains a relatively stable temperature whereby heat production is balanced by heat loss.Normally, the core body temperature (when measured rectally) is 98.6 degrees F or 37 degrees C....
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Volumetric and anatomical MRI for hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy: relationship to hypothermia therapy a
Parikh NA et al.- Selected volumetric MRI findings correlated with hypothermia therapy and neurosensory impairments. Larger studies using MRI brain volumes as a secondary outcome measure are needed. Volumetric and anatomical MRI...
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Cooling the brain prevents cell death during exposure to anaesthesia
20th November 2008 AUK Staff 0 vote Cooling the brain seems to be quite effective in suppressing nerve cell death after an infant animal has been exposed to an anesthetic drug Dr John W.OlneyNew research, reported at Neuroscience 2008,...
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Pulmonary Dysfunction and Therapeutic Hypothermia in Asphyxiated Newborns: Whole Body versus Selective Head Co
SarkarV S et al.- The incidence of PPHN was similar in both the WBC and SHC groups. Pulmonary dysfunction is common but not severe in asphyxiated infants during therapeutic hypothermia. Pulmonary mechanics and gas exchange do...
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Cooling the brain prevents cell death during exposure to anaesthesia
Cooling the brain seems to be quite effective in suppressing nerve cell death after an infant animal has been exposed to an anesthetic drug Dr John W.OlneyNew research, reported at Neuroscience 2008, the annual meeting of the Society for...
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Preanesthetic evaluation (Proceedings)
Allen Lakein said 'planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now'.In preparation for an anesthetic procedure, we must know our patients well in order to be successful. We evaluate each...
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Patient Temperature Management Systems Enjoying Wider Usage
LONDON, Nov.19 /PRNewswire/ -- With issues around patient comfort gaining momentum, hospitals and healthcare decision makers are recognising the need to consider patients' relief and welfare. This is leading to a growing demand for...
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Liverpool News: Hospital uses sandwich bags to save babies' lives
by Liza Williams, Liverpool Daily Post PLASTIC sandwich bags are helping to save the lives of vulnerable young patients at a Liverpool hospitals neonatal unit.Premature babies are being placed into the life-saving bags normally used to...
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U.S. fails hundreds of thousands of its youngest citizens on the day they are born
Child Health News The United States is failing hundreds of thousands of its youngest citizens on the day they are born, according to the March of Dimes.In the first of what will be an annual Premature Birth Report Card, the nation...
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Video: Nation Gets a 'D' as March Of Dimes Releases Premature Birth Report Card
Latest Health News 18 States, Puerto Rico and DC Failed WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Nov.12 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States is failing hundreds of thousands of its youngest citizens on the day they are born, according to the March of Dimes. To...
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Video: Nation Gets a 'D' as March Of Dimes Releases Premature Birth Report Card
Latest Health News 18 States, Puerto Rico and DC Failed WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Nov.12 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States is failing hundreds of thousands of its youngest citizens on the day they are born, according to the March of Dimes. To...
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Cardium Reports on Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Revised Business Strategies for Operating Units
SAN DIEGO, Nov.10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics today reported financial results and highlights for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008, and outlined revised business strategies for its three operating units: (1)...
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Cardium Reports on Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Revised Business Strategies for Operating Units
SAN DIEGO, Nov.10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics today reported financial results and highlights for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008, and outlined revised business strategies for its three operating units: (1)...
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Cardium Completes $6.0 Million Financing
SAN DIEGO, Nov.10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics today announced the completion of a $6.0 million financing in the form of secured debt with accompanying warrants to purchase shares of common stock, replacing a prior debt...
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Cardium's InnerCool Announces New Tissue-Specific UroCool(TM) System for Use in Prostate Surgeries
New Data Suggest Potential Benefits of Targeted Tissue Cooling During Prostate Surgery SAN DIEGO, Nov.11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies, Inc., today announced that it has...
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Critical care nurses workload estimates for managing patients during induced hypothermia
Olson DM et al.- Nurses are open to using a variety of different interventions to manage temperature in critically ill patients. The time required to complete any one intervention varies significantly, but the combination of...
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Incidence, Etiology, Timing, and Risk Factors for Clinical Failure in Hospitalized Patients With Community-Acq
Stefano Aliberti, MD; Asad Amir, MD; Paula Peyrani, MD; Mehdi Mirsaeidi, MD, MPH; Marty Allen, MD; Brian K.Moffett, MD; John Myers, PhD; Fidaa Shaib, MD; Maria Cirino, MD; Jose Bordon, MD; Francesco Blasi, MD, PhD and Julio A. Ramirez,...
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Caring and feeding orphaned puppies and kittens (Proceedings)
The goal of orphan puppy and kitten care is to maximize the health, well being, and socialization of the puppy or kitten until they can be adopted.The neonatal development can be divide into specific time periods; the neonatal period ...
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Induction of therapeutic hypothermia during prehospital CPR using ice-cold intravenous fluid
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Medicine in High Places- course for mountain medicine December 5-8
LONDON, Nov.4, 2008-The 10th Mountain Medicine and High Altitude Physiology Course at the National Mountain Centre in North Wales December 5th-7th sees the 10th Mountain Medicine and High Altitude Physiology Course, set in the dramatic...
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