1. Health Robotics i.v.STATION Inauguration at Gregorio Maranon University Hospital
(Company News/Health Robotics)

... automatically and aseptically compounds non-hazardous IV doses and dispenses them to clinical staff in a ready-to-administer patient formats for antibiotics, pain therapy, anti-virals, epidurals, and other ...

2. U.S. wastes up to $800 billion a year for healthcare
(Communities/Healthcare Informatics)

... the report reads. Some other findings are shown as below: Unnecessary care such as the overuse of antibiotics and lab tests to protect against malpractice exposure makes up 37 percent of healthcare ...

3. EMR: Moving bastille Forward
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

... summarized data from several studies on adverse reactions and ways to reduce the associated hospital costs. The AHRQ found several target classes were often involved in adverse reactions: antibiotics, ...

4. Night Vision Technology Sheds Light on Lymphatic System
(Product Review/Product Review News)

... “This was like Christopher Columbus discovering America. Until now, we’ve never had a good way to study the lymph system. It felt like being a doctor before antibiotics.” With night vision optical technology, ...

5. A Thought on lung cancer screening
(Communities/CT)

... emission tomography scans, antibiotics or lung biopsy. First, screening brings with it important unintended consequences. In the I-ELCAP study, screening was inefficient, identifying cancers in only 1.3% ...

6. Scorpion Offshore Inc. Pilot Project With InPlace Medical Solutions Sets New Standard for Offshore Medical Services
(Company News/NuPhysicia, LLC)

... trained medics, advanced equipment, medical-quality videoconferencing, an electronic medical record (EMR) system, and 128 prescription medications, including vaccines and 20 types of antibiotics. These ...

7. Congenital defect of the frontal sinus complicated by multiple brain abscesses
(Radiology Education/Cases)

... axial image post IV contrast. 18 days post initial CT scan. Fig.5: T1-SE-weighted axial image post IV contrast. 2 months post antibiotics therapy and hyperbaric oxygenation. Patient Hx 10 year-old boy ...

8. Natural aorta grafts have few side effects for infection-prone patients
(Imported/Imported)

... favorable outcomes, but for the small percentage of patients who develop chronic infections within the graft that do not respond to antibiotics, they are at risk of losing their legs or dying. "Since ...

9. Bone-growing nanomaterial could improve orthopaedic implants
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... or undergo a bone scan to monitor bone growth. Webster thinks these 'biosensing' implants could even be designed to detect infection and be specially coated to release antibiotics or other drugs into ...

10. Updated GOLD report presents new understandings of COPD
(Imported/Imported)

... nihilism." Other updates include: New staging guidelines for determining the severity of COPD; Management recommendations for exacerbations including the use of antibiotics; and Recommendations ...

11. Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique
(Imported/Imported)

Frog skin and human lungs hold secrets to developing new antibiotics, and a technique called solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a key to unlocking those secrets, according to University of Michigan researcher ...

12. Multislice CT: a precise warning system for strokes
(Communities/CT)

... "The invention of computer tomography (CT) in the 1970s was the biggest quantum leap forward in medicine since the discovery of antibiotics. Compared to the finely grained images of today with their superb ...

13. Effectively diagnosing graft infections
(Imported/Imported)

... involved implant, while infection of the soft tissues in the vicinity of the graft requires mainly intravenous administration of high doses of antibiotics, she noted. Israel explained that diagnosing ...

14. Following guidelines for pneumonia leads to wrong diagnoses, wrong treatments
(Imported/Imported)

Physicians in Detroit have found that tight adherence to guidelines for managing community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) raises the risk of misdiagnosis and inappropriate use of antibiotics.Physicians in Detroit ...

15. Antibiotics don't prevent future urinary tract infections, may cause resistance in future infections
(Imported/Imported)

After a first childhood urinary tract infection (UTI), daily antibiotics may not prevent another such infection, and may actually increase the risk that the next urinary tract infection is caused by resistant ...

16. Engineers develop way of detecting problems with artificial hip joints
(Imported/Imported)

... it difficult to know whether this from an infection, which can be cured by antibiotics, or because the joint has loosened, which means surgery is needed. A reliable diagnostic test is vital to save patients ...

17. Rheumatic heart disease is silent in most affected children
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... fever in both studies were treated with salicylates and antibiotics. Those with rheumatic valve lesions were examined every six months. In cases of lesions "considered to be significant according to World ...

18. Prompt removal necessary to treat cardiac device-related infective endocarditis
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... devices. Replacement occurred a median 9.5 days after hardware removal. All patients received intravenous antibiotics for a median 28 days after device removal. Four patients died during the initial hospitalization ...

19. Endocarditis prophylaxis no longer advised for most cases of valvular heart disease
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

According to a focused guideline update specific to patients with valvular heart disease, the ACC and the AHA no longer recommend antimicrobial prophylaxis in most situations. According to a focused ...

20. Sound medicine at Acoustics Meeting
(Imported/Imported)

... that are present there to diffuse more easily. Zderic and her colleagues are also currently conducting preclinical studies, producing these tiny bubbles in the cornea to deliver antibiotics and anti-inflammatory ...