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Drug to Lower Cholesterol Underused

...ring drugs can be started when a patient is in the hospital or at a follow-up appointment with a doctor. Resea...en when lipid-lowering therapy is started during a hospital stay vs. in an outpatient setting and its long-term use. For the study, researchers used informatio...

Blood Sugar Linked to Deaths in ICU

... //than 1,800 consecutive patients admitted to the hospital for various causes. High blood sugar, or hypergl...stigate the relationship between hyperglycemia and hospital mortality. Overall, mortality rates rose as average glucose levels rose, with the lowest rate of d...

Antipsychotic Drug Linked to Pulmonary Embolism

...ences of a 28-year-old man who was admitted to the hospital with a psychotic disorder. Doctors began treatment with the antipsychotic drug olanzapine at 10 milligrams per day, gradually upping the dose to 30 milligrams per day. The man also received various other medications. After 10 weeks of treatment, the...

Link Between Hyperglycemia & Hospital Mortality

...re than 1,800 consecutive patients admitted to the hospital for various causes.Overall, mortality rates rose as average glucose levels rose, with the lowest rate of death (9.6 percent) seen for those with glucose levels of 80 to 99 mg/dL. People with levels considered in the normal range (100 mg/dL to 119 mg/...

Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Can Lead To Sickle Cell Crisis

...ckle cell disease are more likely to end up in the hospital with a sickle cell crisis if they live in households where people smoke.// Study after study has confirmed exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can harm the health of nonsmokers. It is found that exposure to smoke affects the way the blood handles o...

Inhaled Corticosteroids Found To Have No Significant Effect On COPD

...n the number of COPD exacerbations or COPD-related hospital stays in the participants. More than 1,000 patients who took part in the study died, and nearly 660 patients were hospitalized for COPD symptoms. Although results from the study contradict prior research, researchers say the difference in results c...

Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest

...ng vasopressin improved the chances of reaching a hospital alive by about 40 percent, and tripled the chances...es for treating people in cardiac arrest outside a hospital . However these advances should be translated into a new standard of care as soon as possible. Res...

‘Protein’ Produced By Overstressed Heart Muscle a Strong Indicator Of Heart Diseae

...e. It was also found to reduce treatment costs and hospital stay. Doctors believe a gradually failing heart tries to protect itself by secreting more and more of the peptide, which dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure. A Swiss study included 452 patients who came to the hospital's ER in 2001 and ...

Common Medication Errors in Children

...urred during the administration stage of a child’s hospital visit. About 10 percent of the errors occurred during the prescribing stage, and the remaining 15 percent of errors occurred during the preparation and dispensing stages. Researchers say the most common medication error occurred because incorrect d...

Latest Findings On The Deadly Disease - SARS

...lood during the outbreak, patients who were in the hospital at the time but didn’t have pneumonia, and health care workers who were also on duty during the epidemic but never developed any symptoms of the disease. Three of the healthy people and one of the patients without pneumonia were found to have antib...

Problems Of a Growing Company

...r more were associated with increased sickness and hospital admissions. The study also found moderate expansio...umber of employees resulted in a decreased risk of hospital admissions. For the research, investigators looked at personnel changes from 1991 to 1996 in 24,00...

The Usage Of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Questioned

... had a 40-percent increased risk of going into the hospital for heart failure. However, those who were taking celecoxib had the same rate of heart failure as the people who had never used NSAIDs. Thus researchers say that their findings show a clear difference between NSAIDs. However they feel the need to do...

Acute Pancreatitis On The Rise Due To Alcohol Consumption

...study, more than 5,000 people were admitted to the hospital with acute pancreatitis in Oxford, England. An increase in the occurrence of gall stones may have also contributed to the rise, researchers note. ...

Reducing The Rate Of Infections

In the last 20 years, hospital infections have increased nearly 40 percent. Nearl...ans develop a potentially fatal infection during a hospital stay. Many of those infections are developing a strong resistance to the antibiotics used to treat t...

Life-Saving Heart Drug Often Not Prescribed

...d 32 percent of elderly patients who went into the hospital with heart failure left without a prescription for an ACE inhibitor. Thus researchers say their findings highlight the ongoing need for efforts to optimize the use of ACE inhibitors with the goal of ensuring that all eligible patients benefit from t...

Pain-Free Heart Attacks Often Misdiagnosed

...have chest pain and 13 percent of them died in the hospital compared to 4 percent of those who experienced che...rved that most often when a patient arrives at the hospital without chest pain, it is only after the blood test results come back or other diagnoses are exclude...

Side Effects Of Some Common Drugs

.... Researchers studied 70 patients who came to the hospital with troublesome swelling of their lips and tongues. Results showed the condition was caused by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-inhibitors or ACEIs) in 45 of the cases, or 64 percent of the time. The remaining cases were attributed to o...

Public Defibrillators Found To Improve Survival Rate

... an AED helped 128 patients. Thirty survived until hospital discharge. Analysis of the results showed heart attack victims in the two groups were about the same in terms of age and sex, and those who survived were similar in terms of functional status. Researchers say their results show that use of AEDs by t...

Reducing The Rate Of Hospital Acquired Infections

...d be used in the prevention of spreading MRSA in a hospital setting. Researchers conclude that despite the limitations of the current research, isolation measures recommended in national guidelines should continue until further research can be conducted....

Angioplasty The Much Preferred Treatment Of Choice For Heart Attacks

...t of choice for heart attack patients, even if the hospital they initially go to doesn’t offer angioplasty// s... admitted or treatment with angioplasty at another hospital that offered the service, if they could be transferred to the new hospital within two hours. Resear...

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