Intensive in Medical News

Innovator's Studio offers Social Media Strategy Intensive Sept 16-17, 2009

The Strategy Group announces a social media strategy intensive designed specifically to help hospitals and health systems incorporate social media into marketing strategy. The 2-day session, entitled, Social Media: It's All About Strategy, is scheduled for Sept 16-17, 2009 in Chicago, IL. ...

New findings encourage more vigilant monitoring of seizure activity among intensive care patients

NEW YORK (June 17, 2009) Two new studies published by neurologists at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital demonstrate a need for more vigilant monitoring for seizure activity among intensive care patients who may be experiencing subtle seizures that are typically ...

BioFit Intensive Plus™ Chairs Meet Federal Standard for Continuous Intensive Use

BioFit Engineered Products, an Ohio-based manufacturer and long-standing leader in the development of ergonomic seating solutions, announced today that its Intensive Plus line of 500-lb. capacity, continuous use chairs recently were rated compliant with the U.S. General Services Administration (G...

BUSM researchers find gram-negative rods in two Philippine neonatal intensive care units

(Boston) - Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found a high frequency of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods (GNRs) in two of the largest neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the city of Manila, Philippines. Improved infection control methods could reduce the vas...

Anpath Group, Inc. Distributor Introduces Products at the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Meeting

MOORESVILLE, N.C., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anpath Group, Inc. (OTC Bulleting Board: ANPG), announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, EnviroSystems, Inc. (ESI) and its distributor partner, Minntech Japan Corporation, launched the ESI product line at the recent 36th annual meeting o...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Plans to Offer Customer Groups Ability to Purchase Coverage of Autism Treatment Programs that Provide Intensive Early Intervention

DETROIT, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan today announced it plans to offer its customer groups the ability to purchase coverage for autism treatment programs that provide intensive early intervention. The new benefit option covers children aged two to five years old who ...

Hospital Opens New $19 Million Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

DAYTON, Ohio, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, May 2, Miami Valley Hospital will unveil its new $19 million Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). A community ribbon cutting ceremony is set for 10 a.m. with tours of the unit to follow until 3:30 p.m. Created with baby and family comfort...

More intensive treatment not associated with better outcomes in early bladder cancer

Patients with early bladder cancer who receive more intensive treatment within the first two years of diagnosis do not appear to have better survival than patients who receive less intensive treatment, according to a retrospective analysis published in the April 7 online issue of the Journal of t...

NICE SUGAR: Intensive insulin therapy risks

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA Intensive insulin therapy significantly increases the risk of hypoglycemia in critically ill patients, found a new study in CMAJ ( http://www.cmaj.ca/press/cmaj.090206.pdf ). Intensive insulin therapy is used in many intensive care units around the world as a means to ...

Dallas To Host Intensive Norvax University Insurance Agent Sales Training and Web Marketing Conference on March 26

* Previous conference SOLD OUT in less than 72 hours. * Health insurance agents and brokers can also receive training and certification in Advanced Sales Development and Online Marketing Strategies Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 11, 2009 -- Norvax University brings its popul...

New Anxiety and Mood Disorders Intensive Treatment Program in Downtown Chicago

CHICAGO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 1st, Insight Psychological Centers, LLC will open its new Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for anxiety and mood disorders. Uncommon in the U.S. and virtually non-existent in Chicago, Insight's intensive program...

Integrated Medical Systems Receives FDA Clearance for World's First 'Suitcase' Intensive Care Unit

SIGNAL HILL, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Medical Systems, Inc., a medical technology systems integrator developing fully integrated products for critical care, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Me...

New Intensive Care Unit at Gilbert Hospital Sees First Patient

GILBERT, Ariz., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gilbert Hospital has completed construction and received licensing from the Arizona Department of Health Services to open its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and officially opened August 13th, 2008. The first patient was admitted to the ICU on the f...

WellPoint Partners With CareNex Health Services to Expand Its Neonatal Intensive Care Services Program

INDIANAPOLIS, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc., today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership position with CareNex Health Services to help promote quality care and service for infants experiencing clinically-complex health issues, and their families. WellPoint is current...

Newborns in Intensive Care Often Exposed to Pain

May change pain processing in brain, affect development, researcher says TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Although tiny babies receiving intensive care must undergo numerous painful interventions, not enough is being done to reduce their discomfort, new research suggests. Of the ...

Less Intensive Treatment Given Diabetic Women With Heart Disease

They have poorer control of risk factors, less likely to get cholesterol-lowering meds MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- Women with type 2 diabetes and heart disease often receive less of the medical treatment they need than men, making their ability to control both diseases more dif...

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Hosts Quality Improvement Summit - Caregivers from 15 States and Canada Gather in Hartford for Intensive Learning

Central Connecticut Cystic Fibrosis Center Becomes National Model after Significant Gains in Health Outcomes for CF BETHESDA, Md., May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Physicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers and respiratory therapists from 15 states and Canada who treat cystic fibrosis wi...

More intensive dialysis does not improve outcomes among patients with acute kidney injury

No significant difference in death rates or other outcomes was found between a group of patients with acute kidney injury that received intensive dialysis and another group that received a more standard regimen of dialysis, according to a joint Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and National Inst...

Mayo Clinic Research Shows U.S. Intensive Care Units' Prevention of Pneumonia in Critically-ill Patients Generally Strong; Identifies Area of Improvement

TORONTO, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayo Clinic researchers found that the frequency with which critically-ill patients developed ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is approximately the same at a multidisciplinary medical center such as Mayo Clinic compared to the average VAP-risk rat...

Construction Commencing at Gilbert Hospital's New Intensive Care Unit

GILBERT, Ariz., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gilbert Hospital is expanding their services again. Construction is set to begin this week on a three-bed intensive care unit located at the north end of the existing building. The new ICU is in the area previously occupied by hospital inpati...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Sharing Grassroots Advocacy Knowledge With International Representatives in Intensive Dallas Training Session

Leader in Breast Cancer Movement Preparing Activists To Make Global Inroads on Decreasing Deaths from the Disease DALLAS, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists, this week welcomes a lan...

Smoking Cessation Rates Double With Intensive Counseling and Free Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Studies of 20,000 Smokers Show

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasing the level of Quitline smoking cessation services and offering free nicotine patches are a successful and cost-effective way to reduce smoking rates, according to two new studies in the December issue of Tobacco Control, a peer-reviewed publica...

Browns Wives Host Special Day at MetroHealth Medical Center to Support the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

'Lady Browns' and their husbands participate in activities with families in the MetroHealth NICU CLEVELAND, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is not exactly the place a parent hopes to spend time with their newborn baby. The NICU ...

Large intensive care study reveals vital recommendations for treatment of brain injury patients

A landmark Australian and New Zealand intensive care study has provided vital information for the treatment of patients with brain injuries. The results of the SAFE-TBI Study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirm that the choice of resuscitation fluids affects the chanc...

Significant Rise in Proportion of Chronically Ill Children Dying in Intensive Care

The proportion of chronically ill young children dying in intensive care after being admitted to other hospital wards has steadily risen year on year since the end of the 1990s,// reveals a study in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The researchers analysed the records of one large children’s h...

Nurses in Intensive Care Sickened by noxious fumes at Toronto Hospital

Seven nurses in the intensive care unit of York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill were sickened after noxious fumes seeped into the ventilation system on Friday. // Two nurses developed breathing difficulties and needed treatment. However no patients were affected. The nurses fell ill at ar...

Neo-Natal Intensive Care Ordered to Shut Down in Phillipines

An order to shut down the neo-natal intensive care unit of the Rizal Medical Center in the province of Rizal with immediate //effect was passed by the Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III following reports of the death of seven new born babies. The unfortunate deaths of all the 7 b...

Survival of colorectal cancer patients increases by intensive surveillance and follow up

Providing a more intensive and a closely monitored surveillance for patients with colon and rectal cancers are proved to reduce the occurrence of cancer recurrence // compared to less aggressive strategy which is now followed by most of the hospitals. Researchers have found that an intensified foll...

Non ventilated patients in intensive care may suffer from delirium

New research has shown that nearly half of the patients in the intensive care// units who are not on ventilators experience delirium. Delirium is also one of the major reasons that patients stay longer in hospitals. Delirium is a regular occurring condition of patients on mechanical ventilator...

Specialist care convalesces intensive care survival

The survival of criticare patients gets better if specialists in critical care medicine manage them personally. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh University have analysed the evidence on managing patients in intensive care units (ICUs). //They have found that patients do much better if th...

Electronic Health Records Help Cardiac Patients Remain Healthy

...erol levels were randomized so that 214 continued in the program to receive intensive direct counseling from the care team. The other 207 patients were discharge...ve at keeping cholesterol and blood pressure in check, compared to the more intensive counseling approach offered to those patients who stayed enrolled in the pr...

TNF Blockers May Help Some With Rheumatoid Arthritis

... If standard treatment fails, more intensive therapy works well, study finds THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay New...f patients have a good response to methotrexate therapy and don't need more intensive combination treatment. This new study included 487 patients with early R...

IPC The Hospitalist Company Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...looking statements. In particular the following risks and uncertainties may have such an impact: failure to comply with complex and intensive government regulation of our industry; the adequacy of our insurance coverage and insurance reserves; our ability to recruit and retain q...

New Research Suggests Most Are Willing to Make Tradeoffs and Would Embrace Comprehensive Health Care Reform

...s in which they pay for health care (taxes, wages, insurance premiums, etc.) they grew concerned over a system that they viewed as simultaneously cost intensive and largely flawed, and expressed greater openness to paying more for a system that works. Participants shift opinion of "freeloaders" and be...

Cooling treatment after cardiac arrest is cost-effective, Penn study shows

...t of post-hospital discharge care. Factors affecting costs included additional nursing care required during cooling treatment, extra time spent in the intensive care unit and post-discharge care required. They found that hypothermia has a cost of less than $100,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY), a meas...

Less Aggressive Care for More Severe Heart Disease

..., Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A study assessing the treatment of people hospitalized for heart disease has produced a worrisome finding: Those who need intensive care the most are less likely to get it. The study of 143,999 people hospitalized between 2000 and 2008 found that those with previously diagnosed ...

Fish Oils May Prevent and Treat Heart Disease

...eople who had heart attacks. But it was a relatively small (4,000 people), short (one-year) trial, and the patients in the trial were already getting intensive drug therapy including clot-busting clopidogrel, cholesterol-lowering statins, beta blockers and ACE inhibitors, Lavie noted. Set against that one ...

Medizone Expects OTCBB Listing

...and development company engaged in developing its AsepticSure(TM) technology to decontaminate and sterilize hospital surgical suites, emergency rooms, intensive care units, schools and other critical infrastructure. Current trials will now be expanded to include a hospital mock-up and then hospital beta testin...

CMC Limited and FileVision LLC Announce Partnership to Provide Business Productivity Solutions to a Global Market

...ion's productivity software solution and CMC Ltd.'s world class consultancy services will help companies rapidly automate existing manual and document intensive processes, dramatically increasing knowledge worker productivity. As more companies try to find areas to trim their budgets, the automation of...

Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder

...g girls and women go on diets to achieve their ideal figure. Less than one percent of the population is affected by life-threatening anorexia. Despite intensive treatment, the course of the disorder is severe and chronic in 20 to 30 percent of the cases and about 10 percent of the patients die of the disease. ...