Subacute

RetireSafe Names Thair Phillips as President

... seniors organization, and executive director of the National subacute Care Association, an organization for promoting the use of subacute care facilities to offset the high cost of prolonged stays in hospitals. ...

The Ensign Group Reports Second Quarter 2009 Earnings of $0.39 per Share; Reaffirms 2009 EPS Guidance

... of beds at the company's Upland Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Southern California, which renovated a wing and reopened it as a new 34-bed subacute unit on June 4, 2009, and which is now in fill-up, as well as the continued build in occupancy at Park Manor Heath and Rehabilitation Center, the ...

The Ensign Group Reports First Quarter 2009 Earnings of $0.38 per Share; Reaffirms 2009 Guidance

... in assisted living occupancy of 7.0%, and the temporary unavailability of some useable beds as two facilities remodeled and prepared to open new subacute units. One of those units, a 26-bed ventilator unit located within the company's Carmel Mountain Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in San Diego ...

Routine scans for low-back pain do not improve outcomes

... conditions does not improve clinical outcomes. Therefore, clinicians should refrain from routine, immediate lumbar imaging in patients with acute or subacute low-back pain and without features suggesting a serious underlying condition. They added: "Rates of utilization of lumbar MRI are increasing, and ...

Economic Downturn Takes Toll on California Hospitals

... having to make reductions in patient care services in the near future. Among the service lines at risk are cardiology and obstetrics programs, subacute and psychiatric units and skilled nursing beds. Staff layoffs and pay cuts also are being reported. The freezing of the credit markets is ...

Old gastrointestinal drug slows aging, McGill researchers say

... for gastrointestinal problems like diarrhea and shigella, clioquinol was withdrawn from the market after being blamed for a devastating outbreak of subacute myelo-optic neuropathy (SMON) in Japan in the 1960s. However, because no rigorous scientific study was conducted at the time, and because clioquinol ...

IPC The Hospitalist Company Acquires Texas Inpatient Services

... IPC's infrastructure and technology." Dallas-based T.I.P.S. currently has seven hospitalists covering several local hospitals, plus a number of subacute care facilities in Dallas and nearby suburbs. Vivek Sastry, M.D., T.I.P.S. Founder and President, stated, "IPC's business and administrative ...

Budget Committee Urged to Strongly Oppose Administration's Proposed $24 Billion, Five-Year Cuts to Medicare

... of caring employees to 1.5 million of our nation's frail, elderly and disabled citizens who live in nursing facilities, assisted living residences, subacute centers and homes for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities. For more information, please visit http://www.ahca.org ...

Pharm MD Solutions Becomes an ASCP MTM Provider Partner

... and improve the quality of life of geriatric patients and other individuals residing in a variety of environments, including nursing facilities, subacute care and assisted living facilities, psychiatric hospitals, hospice programs, and in-home and community-based care. Visit ASCP's Web site at ...

Outcomes Pharmaceutical Health Care(r) Becomes an ASCP MTM Provider Partner

... and improve the quality of life of geriatric patients and other individuals residing in a variety of environments, including nursing facilities, subacute care and assisted living facilities, psychiatric hospitals, hospice programs, and in-home and community-based care. Visit ASCP's Web site at ...

Subacute in Medical Technology

New Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Registry Data Show Clot Quickly Removed, Blood Flow Restored in Large Patient Registry

... percent, acute on chronic in 44 percent, 11 percent subacute, 12 percent subacute on chronic and chronic in 6 percent, per the SIR clot-age classification ... percent in acute on chronic, 96.7 percent in subacute, 89.2 percent in subacute on chronic and 90.9 percent with chronic onset of symptoms, with venous ...

Long Term Data Presented at EuroPCR 2009 from Randomized Study Attest to Durability of Results of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) Compared to Drug-Eluting Stents

... patients increased from one to two years from 4.2% to 5.3%, with another event occurring at 658 days in a patient who had previously presented with a subacute thrombosis and who was on dual antiplatelet therapy at the time of both thromboses. There were no thrombotic events in the Genous treated group at ...

Preliminary Results of Randomized Pilot Study Show Comparable Efficacy for OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R Stent(TM) and Boston Scientific's Taxus(R) Stent in Patients at High Risk of Restenosis

... a Taxus stent were still on dual antiplatelet therapy -- One acute stent thrombosis in the Genous arm, while there was one acute, one subacute and one late stent thrombosis in the Taxus arm -- More instances of non-target vessel revascularization (non-TVR) in the Taxus arm "The ...

Cypher(R) Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent Demonstrates Sustained Clinical Benefits Compared to Bare Metal Stents in Five-Year Randomized Clinical Trial With No Differences in Long-Term Safety

... of whether protocol or Academic Research Consortium (ARC) definitions were employed. When the protocol definitions were used, the rates of acute and subacute stent thrombosis were 0.0 percent for the bare metal stent and 1.1 percent for the CYPHER(R) Stent (p=0.25). The late stent thrombosis rates were 0.0 ...

Subacute in Medical Products

SS-A (Ro)Anti-Extractable Nuclear Antigen (ENA) Antibodies Kit

Description:... extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) [RNP, Sm, SS-A (Ro), or SS-B (La)] in human serum. SS-A (Ro) and SS-B (La) antibodies aid in the diagnosis of SLE, subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) and Sjgrens ....
Company:IMMCO Diagnostics

SS-B (La) Anti-Extractable Nuclear Antigen (ENA) Antibodies Kit

Description:... of IgG antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) SS-B (La) in human serum. SS-A (Ro) and SS-B (La) antibodies aid in the diagnosis of SLE, subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) and Sjgrens ....
Company:IMMCO Diagnostics

Nightingale PPM2

Description:... The Nightingale Monitoring System™ expands hospital-grade monitoring capabilities into the growing health care fields of subacute care and disease state management. The system is unique in its ability to encompass a full range of clinical applications, from continuous real-time ...
Company:Zoe Medical

Subacute in Medical Dictionary

Subacute thyroiditis

... subacute thyroiditis is an uncommon condition thought to ... necessarily symmetrical, the doctor may suspect subacute thyroiditis . A diffusely enlarged gland may ... fibrosis Skin lesion of blasto mycosis subacute thyroiditis Systemic sclerosis ( scleroderma ) ...

Giant cell

... -nucleated cells that are called giant cell s. Alternate Names : deQuervain's Thyroiditis , Granulomatous Giant Cell Thyroiditis Definition subacute thyroiditis involves inflammation of the thyroid gland that usually follows an upper respiratory infection and then subsides. GIANT CELL ...

Mycosis

... disease Osteomyelitis Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) Pericarditis , post -MI Retroperitoneal fibrosis Skin lesion of blasto mycosis subacute thyroiditis Systemic sclerosis ( scleroderma ) ... cryptococcosis, cytomegalovirus , herpes simplex virus , Mycobacterium avium complex and ...

Systemic sclerosis

... disease Osteomyelitis Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) Pericarditis , post -MI Retroperitoneal fibrosis Skin lesion of blasto mycosis subacute thyroiditis Systemic sclerosis ( scleroderma ) ... ...

Thyroiditis

... Chronic thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland that frequently results in hypothyroidism (lowered thyroid function). subacute Thyroiditis Alternate Names : deQuervain's Thyroiditis , Granulomatous Giant Cell Thyroiditis Definition ... Postpartum thyroiditis is ...

Subacute in Biological News

New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection

... of Infectious Diseases, now available online, also concludes that vaccination against measles could prevent many more cases of the disease, known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, than previously thought. Because persons have apparently contracted SSPE without ever knowingly having had ...

Old drug shows new promise for Huntington's Disease

... use in many countries because of its side effects. In Japan in the late 1950s and 60s, the drug was found to cause a neurologic condition called subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy (SMON), with symptoms including visual loss, muscle weakness, and numbness, in several thousand people. However, noted Massa, ...

Subacute in Biological Technology

MultiVu Video Feed: Geron Receives FDA Clearance to Begin World's First Human Clinical Trial of Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapy

... trial that is designed to establish the safety of GRNOPC1 in patients with "complete" American Spinal Cord Injury Association (ASIA) Grade A subacute thoracic spinal cord injuries. Patients eligible for the Phase I trial must have documented evidence of functionally complete spinal cord injury with ...