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Drug Used To Improve Lung Function In Infants Could Slow Down Motor Coordination

...n the short-term and allows for early weaning from mechanical ventilation. All of the infants in the study had severe respiratory distress syndrome that required mechanical ventilation shortly after birth. Out of 146 children, 72 were given .25 milligrams of dexamethasone ...

Operating on a Beating Heart Yields Better Results For Blocked Heart Arteries

... either on-pump (work of the heart is shifted to a mechanical pump while heart remains still) or off-pump (the heart is still beating) surgery. Results of the surgeries were evaluated one year later. Results showed both surgeries were equally effective. Rates of chest artery reblockage were 9 percent for both ...

Side Effects Of Some Common Drugs

...patients also required endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. All of the patients recovered with treatment.The researchers note most of the patients who developed the swelling due to their ACE-inhibitors did so within a couple months of beginning the drug therapy. But a significant minority -- 24 p...

Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery

...ess than 20 years. "Instead of guessing where the mechanical axis or points of reference are, the computer tells us accurately where they are, and it's accurate to within one or two degrees," Dr. Davenport tells Ivanhoe. He says the surgery is more expensive but worth it. "I really like the accuracy component ...

Lung Therapy Found To Have Long-Term Side Effects

...n the short-term and allows for early weaning from mechanical ventilation. All of the infants in the study had...severe respiratory distress syndrome that required mechanical ventilation shortly after birth. Out of 146 children, 72 were given .25 milligrams of dexamethasone ...

Ultrasound Screening Could Improve The Outcome Of Critically ill Patients

...s with assumed acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. They assumed the patients received ventilation for seven days, as well as an intensive care unit stay of eight days, and an additional eight days in the hospital. After calculating the costs, researchers say the ultrasound strategy costs...

Benefits of Nitric Oxide in the Treatment of Premature Infants

...ing from respiratory distress syndrome and were on mechanical ventilators to help them breathe. About half the babies were assigned to receive the active treatment, while the rest received a sham treatment. The treatment lasted for seven days. Results showed the infants receiving nitric oxide fared significant...

ICU Survival can be improved by Antibiotic use

...riate for all ICU patients who are likely to be on mechanical ventilation for at least two days or in the ICU for at least three days, provided they are being treated in an ICU with a low incidence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ...

Lumbar bone mineral density affected by daily physical activity

...components of physical activity were analysed. The mechanical aspect covered the sum of all ground reaction forc...hreshold point. However, physical activity causing mechanical loading on the skeleton had a small positive influence on LMBD in males aged from 27 to 36 years old...

Longer airway in males increases sleep disorder risk

...nabled them build an airway model that reveals the mechanical properties of the upper airway. They find that, regardless of height, the airway is always longer in men than in women. This difference makes the male airway more susceptible to collapse, the researchers say. This may be at least part of the reason w...

Caesarean may aid twins

...ing birth and one in 420 for lack of oxygen due to mechanical problems. Researchers say these absolute risks are high in comparison with similar data for singleton term births in Scotland over the same period. Researchers say planned caesarean delivery may offer some protection. Previous studies show second twi...

Injection supports Heart Devices

...o a new study a clot-buster injection may unclog a mechanical heart pump, reconditioning the blood flow. Markus ...st devices. A left ventricular assist device is a mechanical pump-like device that is surgically implanted to maintain the pumping ability of a heart that can't ...

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

...-automise the habit. This will turn smoking from a mechanical to a conscious process. This will be followed by the finalising of a Pilot Quitting Date, a 24-hour period, when the person will keep away from smoking and resume. This is done to reduce the stress of quitting, according to therapists at Newtrition...

Many factors influence sexual potency

...nce include medication changes, lifestyle changes, mechanical devises, oral medication and counseling....

Composite fillings to hasten work procedures

...” says Dr. Don. “We are working on improvement of mechanical properties by modifying the surface properties of ACP and by changing the composition of the resin," he says.br>...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

... Gray said. // Robert Tools received the AbioCor mechanical heart on July 2 at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. At the time, he was so ill he had been given little chance of living more than 30 days without it. Tools improved after the implant and had even been able to dine out at restaurants and go fishing. La...

Asthma linked to obesity

...leading to a child developing asthma symptoms. The mechanical impact of the weight on the lungs could compromise the airways, causing increased responsiveness which is a hallmark of asthma, the researchers add. Seven thousand children, aged between four and 17, took part in the US National Health and Nutritio...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...odies. None suffered from pneumonia or needed much mechanical help to breathe. Dr. David Herndon, who led the study, said more research is needed to show how much the preserved body mass strengthens patients and boosts recovery. But he believes the drug could safely slow hypermetabolism in thousands of patie...

Surgeons implant second artificial heart

...pital said in a statement. // The self-contained mechanical heart, made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts, is the first major advance in the development of an artificial replacement heart in nearly two decades. The surgeons have said previously that patients considered for the implant were critically ...

Reversing heart failure

.../ The left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump which is used to support the failing heart - taking over some of its workload. It's used a bridge to transplant - buying patients some time while they wait for that scarce donor organ. Researchers at Dallas, USA, have now shown that the LVAD doe...

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