Maryland ICU Patients Connected to Remote Critical Care Staff, Improving Quality and Safety

The First Maryland eCare Hospital goes 'live' WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Starting Monday, May 18, Maryland intensive care patients will be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away. A year...

Early Exercise Boosts Outcomes for ICU Patients

Interrupting sedation for daily physiotherapy led to better post-discharge function, study finds THURSDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Interrupting the sedation of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) to engage them in brief physical therapy may lead to better outcom...

Organ Failure, Sedative Use in ICU May Lead to Depression

Study examines why people suffer mood disorder after discharge TUESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- Two factors that predict depression in people after they've been hospitalized in an intensive care unit have been identified by Johns Hopkins researchers. Their study involved 160 pe...

UB-designed ventilator can safely sedate ICU patients for less

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new, recently licensed medical device developed by University at Buffalo researchers would introduce into intensive care settings the powerful and effective method of anesthetizing patients that works so well in the operating room. The new UB ventilator has the potential to sh...

Texas Health Dallas' New Intensivist Program Puts Critical-Care Specialists in the ICU - All the Time

DALLAS, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is the first major medical center in North Texas to implement an intensivist program that puts the care of ICU patients under the guidance of board-certified critical care physicians, who directly oversee patient c...

Newer Sedative May Reduce Delirium in ICU Patients

Dexmedetomidine might become a new standard of care, researcher says MONDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- The sedative dexmedetomidine (Precedex) reduces the time patients stay on ventilators and results in less delirium than other more commonly used drugs for patients in intensive care ...

Preventive Use of Antibiotics Cuts ICU Deaths

Dutch researchers admit more review is needed on potential antibiotic resistance WEDNESDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Giving people antibiotics before they were admitted to a hospital intensive care unit led to a drop in patient deaths, a new Dutch study found. The findings sho...

Most Important Factors Driving Usage of Antibiotics in the ICU Setting are Availability in Intravenous Formulation, Activity Against Key Gram Negative Pathogens, Drug Interactions and Bactericidal Activity

Intensive Care Setting Is Characterized by Lower Level of Usage Restrictions, According to a New Report from AMR and Decision Resources MALVERN, Penn. and WALTHAM, Mass.,Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Arlington Medical Resources (AMR) and Decision Resources find that the most important factors t...

Early Mobility Best for ICU Patients

Getting out of bed sooner helped quality of life after discharge, study finds TUESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The best medicine for intensive care unit (ICU) patients may be getting them out of bed and moving as soon as they're able, a new report says. Based on a review of ICU ...

Gilbert Hospital ICU in Full Swing

GILBERT, Ariz., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gilbert Hospital's ICU which opened just 30 days ago, is up to capacity with patients. The new ICU services the hospitals emergency department as well as the inpatient rooms. The three bed ICU is staffed with well trained and highly educated ...

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ICU in Medical Technology

Tight Glycemic Control in the ICU

Helen Londe, M.D. Contributing Editor The outcome of many illnesses for which patients are treated in intensive care units (ICUs) has not improved dramatically over the past decades, despite the development of high-tech monitors and sophisticated mechanical and pharmacological support of vital org...

SUNY Youth Sports Institute Convenes Top Experts in NYC Next Week to Present Research & Analysis on Energy Drink Health Impacts

...eer youth coaches in New York State to a common minimum coaching standard. Presenters Peter Salgo, MD Associate Director, Open Heart icu at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons , New York, NY Chad Reissig, PhD Postdoctoral Fe...

Diabetes Experts Issue New Recommendations for Inpatient Glycemic Control - Call for Systemic Changes in Hospitals Nationwide

...nd revised glucose targets of 140-180 mg/dL in the icu setting, and between 100-180 mg/dL for most patien...empts to intensively manage glucose targets in the icu setting have shown inconsistent results in patient...ts of 140-180 mg/dL for critically ill patients in icu settings. "We are witnessing an evolution in ...

10-State Project to Study Methods to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Hospital ICUs

...and lead to substantial cost savings for participating hospitals and the health care system. The comprehensive safety program is designed to help icu staff ensure patient safety. The program, which has been used successfully in more than 100 ICUs in Michigan, includes tools to help health care profe...

Physicians Estimate That if Approved, Ceftobiprole Will Steal Nearly a Third of Zyvox's Patient Share in the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia

...ective Insight Series: Skin & Soft Tissue Infections -- Hospital Anti-Infective Insight Series: U.S. Antibiotic Usage Patterns and Drivers in the icu Setting About AMR AMR (http://www.AMR-data.com ) serves the market intelligence needs of the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries. Re...

Study Shows Use of AdvanDx's PNA FISH(TM) Test was Associated with an 82% Reduction in Intensive Care Unit Mortality Rates from Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections

...; 69 in NPF vs. 72 in UC group -- 44 patients in icu vs. 158 in non-ICU -- 53% reduction in overall m... UC group -- 82% reduction in mortality rate for icu patients with S. aureus; 10% for NPF group vs. 56%...linicians was associated with reduced mortality in icu patients," said lead author Shmuel Shoham, M.D., S...

Ikaria Completes Dosing of Phase 1a Clinical Study for IK-1001 (Sodium Sulfide) for Injection

...n to develop novel treatments for the critically ill in the in hospital and icu setting -- an area of medicine that is highly underserved, yet represents a...cts and drug/device combinations for the critically ill in the hospital and icu setting. The company's product, INOmax(R) (nitric oxide) for inhalation, is...

Agennix Initiates A Randomized Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study of Oral Talactoferrin in Severe Sepsis

...re unit (ICU), whichever occurs first. The primary efficacy endpoint of the trial is 28-day all-cause mortality. Secondary endpoints include number of icu days, shock-free days, incidence and severity of organ failure/dysfunction and circulating levels of pro- inflammatory cytokines. Safety will be monit...

Arbios Receives Conditional Approval from the FDA to Initiate Pivotal Clinical Trial for SEPET(TM)

...") to prevent lethal aspiration pneumonia and can be transferred out of the icu after a reduction of 2 grades of HE, unless other complications require continued icu care. Similarly, reduction of HE to grade 0, 1 usually permits discharge fr...

Media Statement: MHA Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality OHRP Ruling

... OHRP overturned its previous ruling regarding the icu collaborative. The following statement is from S...ward with the lifesaving work of the MHA Keystone: icu collaborative. The final ruling reached by the OHR...ginal assertion that the work of the MHA Keystone: icu collaborative represented quality improvement, as ...

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ICU in Medical Products

HCH w/Flex Elbow™ ICU Type

Description: Passive heat and moisture exchangers for respiratory applications....
Company:Vital Signs, Inc.

Anesthesia or ICU Type Neonatal

Description: Passive heat and moisture exchangers for respiratory applications....
Company:Vital Signs, Inc.

Medisize Ulti-Mist ICU

Description: The Ulti-Mist™ HME product line has the right product for any patient ranging from pediatrics to adults and from intubated patients to patients with tracheotomies. These products offer superior humidification for both anesthesia and critical care applications. The Unti-Mist HME and HME/Fil...
Company:King Systems Corporation

Medisize Ulti-Mist HME/F ICU

Description: The Ulti-Mist™ HME product line has the right product for any patient ranging from pediatrics to adults and from intubated patients to patients with tracheotomies. These products offer superior humidification for both anesthesia and critical care applications. The Unti-Mist HME and HME/Fil...
Company:King Systems Corporation

Medisize Ulti-Mist Filter ICU

Description: The Ulti-Mist™ HME product line has the right product for any patient ranging from pediatrics to adults and from intubated patients to patients with tracheotomies. These products offer superior humidification for both anesthesia and critical care applications. The Unti-Mist HME and HME/Fil...
Company:King Systems Corporation

ThermoFlo™

Description:... The Leader in icu Humidification. Available Configurations: Gas Sampling Port Straight Flex Tube Poppel Flex Tube Luer Port for Pressure Monitoring/Secretion ...
Company:ARC Medical, Inc.

ThermoFlo™ Filter

Description:... The Leader in icu Humidification. Available Configurations: Gas Sampling Port Straight Flex Tube Poppel Flex Tube Luer Port for Pressure Monitoring/Secretion ...
Company:ARC Medical, Inc.

GlideScope® Video Intubation System

Description:...Bariatic surgery Nasal Intubations Foreign body removal Cervical spine immobilization Difficult nasogastric tube replacement Reintubation in icu setting Vocal cord visualization Teaching the anatomy of the airway ...
Company:Vitaid

Aestiva/5

Description:... therapy. The Aestiva/5 with SmartVent offers you selected capabilities of an intensive care ventilator, saving you the cost of bringing a separate icu ventilator into the OR. Its flexible ergonomic design and intuitive operations enhance SmartVent's capabilities to give you a higher level confidence ...
Company:Datex-Ohmeda, Inc.

Bravo Endeavor

Description:...me than other amplifier interfaces. The new Endeavor software helps you to record and display almost any combination of MDT that your surgical case or icu monitoring requires (e.g., SEP, AEP, EMG, EEG, and CSA) all at the same instant....
Company:VIASYS Healthcare (Nicolet Biomedical)

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ICU in Medical Dictionary

Thoracentesis

...CTION Thoracentesis is a percutaneous procedure during which a needle is ... LeMense, GP, Sahn, SA. Safety and value of thoracentesis in medical icu patients. ... What is thoracentesis ? Meaning of thoracentesis medical term. What does thoracentesis mean? ... Thoracentesis is also perfor...

Shock

... aid for shock . ... Shock sometimes causes a person to become overly excited and anxious. ... Introduction to management of shock for junior icu trainees and medical students ... other features of cardiogenic shock such as the cool peripheries, decreased ... Shock can arise from any of ...

Purulent

...e notation of either purulent sputum or change in ... Patient is in icu or is being placed in icu and full life support is planned. ... evidence of pneumonia in associatio...

Psychosis

...o diagnose the cause of the psychosis . ... icu Psychosis glossary includes a list of icu Psychosis related medical definitions and related links on MedicineNet.com ... icu psychosis is a form of ... Psychosis , ment...

Myocardial contusion

...rdial contusion . Aortic rupture. Arch vessel injury. Oesophageal perforation ... all patients with myocardial contusion should be admitted to icu for observation ... ...

Brain surgery

...rain ; Neurosurgery; Craniectomy; ... Brain surgery treats problems in the brain and the structures ... of brain surgery are: ... 4 Beds icu (Intensive Care Unit) LR (Labor Room) First Stage ... 11am to 2pm Mondays to Saturdays ... Copyrights 2008. All rights reserved. Brain - Surgery .pk ...

ARDS

...an on April 14, 2000, with an ... ARDS Foundation, charitable organization offers support to families/victims of ... Corticosterioids in ARDS . icu Delirium & Cognitive Impairment. One Year Outcomes ... Learn about acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ) a lung condition caused ...

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ICU in Biological News

A nutritional supplement could improve the clinical situation of ICU patients

This release is available in Spanish . Scientists from the University of Granada and the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital have found out that some critical patients could improve their oxide stress and, consequently, their clinical situation by taking a simple exogenous antioxidant treatment...

Children's Hospital Oakland is first pediatric hospital to use 'laboratory-on-a-card' technology

...c Intensive Care Unit and a veteran Children's Hospital intensivist. "We're always looking to see if there's new technology that will make running the icu more efficient and more child-friendly, allow us to minimize discomfort and maximize our results, and make measurement as accurate as possible, while ...

Environmental cleaning intervention reduces transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms in ICUs

...rvention. The study builds upon a body of research conducted by Datta and his co-authors. In a 2006 study, they found that patients admitted to an icu room whose prior occupant had been infected with MRSA or VRE had as much as a 40 percent increased risk of acquiring either pathogen, suggesting envir...

Fewer deaths with preventive antibiotic use

...o kinds of antibiotic treatments with the standard icu care. They divided into three groups nearly six th...for at least two days and/or to be admitted to the icu for at least three days. One of the groups receive...up was the control group and received the standard icu care. After four weeks, fewer people had died ...

Collegiate Inventors Competition recognizes top student inventors

...Wan, & Swarnali Sengupta, Johns Hopkins University (Advisor: Dale Needham) icu Mover Aid A device that integrates Intensive Care Unit life support systems with a wheeled walker and wheelchair to give mobility to icu patients, which may help speed recovery. Joshua Liu, Gayathree Murugapp...

Ikaria(R) Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Inhaled Carbon Monoxide for Delayed Graft Function in Solid Organ Transplants

...ent and commercialization of innovative pharmaceutical and biological products and drug/device combinations for the critically ill in the hospital and icu setting. The company's product, INOmax(R) (nitric oxide) for inhalation, is an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of hypoxic respiratory failure in t...

Ikaria(R) Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Inhaled Carbon Monoxide for Delayed Graft Function in Solid Organ Transplants

...ent and commercialization of innovative pharmaceutical and biological products and drug/device combinations for the critically ill in the hospital and icu setting. The company's product, INOmax(R) (nitric oxide) for inhalation, is an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of hypoxic respiratory failure in t...

CMV infections affect more than just patients with compromised immune systems, researchers find

...f time the patient had to spend in the hospital or icu and their risk of death. The researchers found that CMV reactivation was surprisingly common in icu patients, with about 30 percent exhibiting an acti...was strongly associated with a longer hospital and icu stay for patients. "Other studies have looked ...

Gene chips used to distinguish ventilator-associated pneumonia from underlying critical illness

...te an infection in healthy individuals, the same symptoms are widespread in icu patients, where they are linked to a range of underlying conditions, includ... of pneumonia in a community setting. The researchers then moved to the icu to determine whether the activity of the equivalent human genes could diffe...

Bacteria from patient's dental plaque causes ventilator-associated pneumonia

...many as 25 percent of all patients admitted to the icu and placed on ventilators develop pneumonia, which... plaque of patients when they were admitted to the icu and placed on ventilators were found later in the ...The trial aims to determine if swabbing ventilated icu patients?mouths with a bactericide protects them f...

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ICU in Biological Technology

Video: Data From 185,000 ICU Admissions Show Significant Reductions in Mortality:

Results from 156 Hospitals Validate VISICU's eICU(R) Program as Solution for U.S. Critical Care Crisis BALTIMORE, May 20, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- ICU patients are nearly one-third less likely to die, on average, when treated at hospitals using the eICU(R) care delivery model, ...

New Clinical Study Shows Masimo PVI(TM) Accurately Predicts Fluid Responsiveness in the ICU

First Study to Expand PVI Utility Beyond the OR Presented at the 29th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels IRVINE, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI ), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) and Measure-Through Motio...

Orcrist Bio Inc. Receives Approval from European Competent Authority to Initiate its Planned Phase I, Open-label, Single-ascending-dose, Safety Study of HYC750

...nd IIa clinical trials. Its professional and experienced team, and state of the art facilities, embedded within the care of a private hospital with an icu unit on the same floor, guarantee maximum safety for the full range of clinical pharmacology studies. Electronic data processing procedures are in pla...

Orcrist Bio Inc. Files with European Competent Authority for a Phase I, Open-label, Single-ascending-dose, Safety Study of HYC750

...nd IIa clinical trials. Its professional and experienced team, and state of the art facilities, embedded within the care of a private hospital with an icu unit on the same floor, guarantee maximum safety for the full range of clinical pharmacology studies. Electronic data processing procedures are in pla...

ICU Medical Inc. and Health Robotics Announce Compatibility of CytoCare(TM) Robot and CLAVE(R) Needle-Free Connector to Enable Safer Hazardous Drug Handling

...y, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics and icu Medical today announced the culmination of the dev.... "We are very pleased to have worked with icu Medical in the development of the first compatible...D, CEO ICU Medical. "I am delighted to see icu Medical and Health Robotics cooperate on the devel...

Advanced Technologies and Wireless Telecommunications Enhance Care and Medical Training at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami

... Ph.D., director of the William Lehman Injury Research Center and principal investigator on the project. "Enabling doctors to instantly connect to the icu through high-speed wireless technology can help lower the preventable death rate by speeding up the delivery of trauma care during the 'golden hour,' ...

USDA Awards $1.5 Million to Expand Access to High-Quality Critical Care in Rural Communities

...en to allow for early intervention and treatment. -- Specialists monitor procedures, direct treatment and immediately alert Emergency Department and icu personnel when intervention may be required. -- Video-conferencing/Video-assessment equipment enables live interaction between the eICU team and tho...

Hill-Rom Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue Growth of 14.1 Percent to $424 Million and Adjusted Earnings Per Fully Diluted Share From Continuing Operations of $0.58, an Increase of 52.6 Percent From the Prior Year

...ment revenue grew nearly nine percent, led by over 40 percent growth in our icu patient support systems, and over 30 percent growth in our proprietary ther...n, due in part to strong customer reaction to our new TotalCare Connect(TM) icu bed platform. Our healthcare information technology unit also showed good g...

Results of United Kingdom MRSA Surveillance Program Using Cepheid GeneXpert(R) System Demonstrate Benefits of Rapid Testing

... is critically ill and needs to be admitted to the icu without delay, clinicians simply cannot afford to ...RSA." "It made sense to start the screening with icu patients as they are the most susceptible to contr...al. "It is vital to prevent MRSA from entering the icu as it is extremely serious and potentially fatal f...

New Clinical Studies Presented at the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) Annual Meeting Show Masimo Technologies Provide Advanced Clinical Intelligence

...valuation -- covering 2,587 total patient days -- showed an 80 percent decrease in distress codes and rescue activations, and a 50 percent decrease in icu transfers for Masimo Patient SafetyNet system-monitored patients. Researchers concluded that, "the system supported the early identification of patien...

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