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A Masterclass in Durability: The LANX Pendle Boots Are Your New 365-Day Workhorse
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All the best October menswear arrivals from Reigning Champ
All the best October menswear arrivals from Reigning Champ
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Jul , 2024
Before Michigan legalized surrogacy, families found ways around the ban
Tag: Intensive Care

Before Michigan legalized surrogacy, families found ways around the ban

The first time Tammy and Jordan Myers held their twins, the premature babies were so fragile that their tiny faces were mostly covered by oxygen masks and tubing. Their little hands rested gently on Tammy’s chest as the machines keeping them alive in a neonatal intensive care unit in Grand Rapids, Michigan, beeped and hummed […]

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Jul , 2024
PCOS linked to higher risk of adverse birth outcomes
Tag: Intensive Care

PCOS linked to higher risk of adverse birth outcomes

A recent Nature Communications study explored the association between polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and birth outcomes in women with PCOS overall and assessed the role of potential confounders. Study: Systematic review and meta-analysis of birth outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Image Credit: MMD Creative/Shutterstock.com Polycystic ovary syndrome and birth outcomes About 13% of women in […]

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May , 2024
Study reveals unintended consequences of antibiotic choice in sepsis treatment Treatment With …
Tag: Intensive Care

Study reveals unintended consequences of antibiotic choice in sepsis treatment Treatment With …

In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, clinicians make split-second decisions about which antibiotics to give a patient when a life-threatening infection is suspected. A new U-M study reveals that these decisions may have unintended consequences for patient outcomes. Beginning in 2015, a 15-month national shortage of a commonly prescribed antibiotic, piperacillin/tazobactam, […]

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Mar , 2024
UQ researchers use new dosing technology to enhance ICU antibiotic treatment
Tag: Intensive Care

UQ researchers use new dosing technology to enhance ICU antibiotic treatment

University of Queensland researchers have used dosing software to accelerate the effects of antibiotics in patients being treated for sepsis in Intensive Care Units. Dosing software improved antibiotic exposures in critically ill adults and children with sepsis. Image Credit: Adobe.Co-senior study author Professor Jason Roberts from UQ’s Centre for Clinical Research said the technique trialed in the DIRECT study […]

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Feb , 2024
Study tracks health and quality of life in chronically critically ill COVID-19 patients months after hospital discharge
Tag: Intensive Care

Study tracks health and quality of life in chronically critically ill COVID-19 patients months after hospital discharge

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated chronic critical illness (CCI) in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors who sought intensive care unit (ICU) admission and were on mechanical ventilation due to severe infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus -2 (SARS-CoV-2). Study: Reduced health-related quality of life, fatigue, anxiety and depression affect COVID-19 […]

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Dec , 2023
Sepsis greatly reduces the chances of returning to work, study finds
Tag: Intensive Care

Sepsis greatly reduces the chances of returning to work, study finds

A few years ago, the World Health Organization estimated that blood poisoning, or sepsis, is involved in one in five deaths in the world. 11 million people die from sepsis each year, of which nearly 3 million are children. This is also a problem in Norway, with thousands of people affected every year. Sepsis […]

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Dec , 2023
New study shows XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduces hospitalizations and ICU admissions in older adults
Tag: Intensive Care

New study shows XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduces hospitalizations and ICU admissions in older adults

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv pre-print* server, a team of researchers evaluated the effectiveness of the XBB.1.5 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine in reducing hospitalizations and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions among previously vaccinated adults aged 60 and over in the Netherlands from October to December 2023. Study: Early COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness […]

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Oct , 2023
Homeless women see hope in street medicine
Tag: Intensive Care

Homeless women see hope in street medicine

Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. Her baby, Kyle, who had been born three months prematurely, was in respiratory failure in the neonatal intensive care unit and fighting for his life. The odds […]

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Oct , 2023
Feds hope to cut sepsis deaths by hitching Medicare payments to treatment stats
Tag: Intensive Care

Feds hope to cut sepsis deaths by hitching Medicare payments to treatment stats

Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he arrived at the emergency room with foot pain. Smith said his wife “slowly started filling me […]

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Sep , 2023
Bacteriophage cocktail can effectively disrupt Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms on medical equipment
Tag: Intensive Care

Bacteriophage cocktail can effectively disrupt Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms on medical equipment

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated whether a cocktail of bacteriophages coding for the depolymerase polysaccharide could effectively disrupt Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms. Study: Bacteriophages with depolymerase activity in the control of antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms. Image Credit: AnaLysiSStudiO/Shutterstock.comKlebsiella pneumoniae has been linked to several illnesses, including pneumonia, urogenital infection, liver […]
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