Tempe-Based Marketing Agency Receives Prestigious National Healthcare Marketing Award, Several Regional Awards

Mindspace, a full-service advertising, public relations and new media agency, has been recognized by PRSA with a Bronze Anvil for its media relations efforts for Catholic Healthcare West's Emergency Room Campaign Tempe, Ariz. (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 -- Mindspace , a full-...

Reliv International Named As Finalist In the American Business Awards

Reliv International is a finalist for a Stevie® Award for the Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year. In addition to providing free nutritional supplements to 42,000 malnourished individuals, mostly children, every day in 10 countries, the Reliv Kalogris Foundation has built and ...

Foundation for the Drug-Free World Honored with Seven ADDY Awards

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World received a Silver 2009 ADDY® Award for its multi-media drug education and prevention campaign and Bronze 2009 ADDY Awards for each of six of its new public service announcements. Los Angeles, Ca (PRWEB) March 19, 2009 -- The ca...

"Critical Conditions" Wins Best Health Book of the Year Awards

"Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive," by author and patient advocate, Martine Ehrenclou, MA, has been chosen Best Health Book of the Year by Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Awards and Books&Authors.net. Los An...

ARDS Promotes Awareness with New Campaign

... This ards Awareness Video video was created generously by Ac...son - it is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. ards Foundation, based in Chicago, aims to educate peop...tating disease," said Eileen Rubin Zacharias, ards Foundation President and co-founder. "To hav...

Number of Revascularization Procedures, Related In-Hospital Mortality and Some Complications Decline, While Rates of Infection and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery Increase

... PCI cases decreased by 50%. The incidence of ards and post-operative infection associated with CABG ...ring the study period. The increase in the rate of ards and post-operative infection complications has an ...ll. Prior research conducted by CDS indicates that ards and post-operative infection can add more than $46...

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome as Deadly as Ever

...there's been a steady decline in the percentage of ards patients who die. The researchers reviewed stud...d 2006, and found the death rate for patients with ards and related acute lung injury (ALI) is 40 percent ...nal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine . ards is lung condition that develops when trauma to the...

ARDS mortality is unchanged since 1994

...omprehensive review of major studies that assessed ards deaths. This disappointing finding contradicts the common wisdom that ards mortality has been in steady decline. The study...ntrary to the suggested benchmark mortality of all ards and related acute lung injury (ALI) cases being 25...

Measures to assess potential lung injury during ventilation inadequate

...ronic, because for a large number of patients with ards it is the treatment, rather the syndrome, which en...ety. In the early 1970's, the mortality rate for ards was up to 90 percent. Now, that rate has fallen to...te surrogate measure for lung stress and strain in ards patients, Dr. Gattinoni and colleagues directly me...

News briefs: May issue of the journal Chest

...tropium. This study is published in the May issue of the journal CHEST. ards MORTALITY RATES DECLINING New research shows that, over the last decade,...ished between 1994 and 2006 that reported mortality rates for patients with ards or ALI. Mortality rates ranged from 15 to 72%, with the overall pooled mort...

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