Critical Care/Emergency Medicine

Subarachnoid haemorrhage is a severe stroke subtype that is caused by a rupture of a brain aneurysm, an enlargement in brain vessel wall. Up to one in four subarachnoid haemorrhage patients die quickly after the bleed at home, on the…

Credit: Virginia Tech Reports that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States have led the Institute of Medicine and several state legislatures to suggest that data from patient safety event reporting…

Algorithm draws on electronic medical records as soon as patient arrives AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 13, 2019) - Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have developed a unique model allowing them to predict which…

Hospitals need to identify and develop interventions to help ICU patients return to workCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences In recent years, national attention has been drawn to the plight of patients who have experienced the…

A new device can deposit drug-delivering fibers directly onto biological materialCredit: L.G. Huston and E.A. Kooistra-Manning, Montana Technological University WASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2019 -- With newly developed…

Credit: Intermountain Healthcare As the outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with e-cigarettes, or vaping, continues to spread across the U.S., researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City have effectively…

Results from national survey on drug use and health for 2015-2016 A new analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health finds a surprisingly high prevalence of prescription opioid use among youth. As recently as 2015-2016,…

Boosting the milk of premature babies with healthy bacteria may have helped half the number of serious gut problems and infections, according to new research led by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and involving the University…

Raising hopes of rapid and more specific brain cancer diagnoses, a new "Resonance Raman" technique developed by world-renowned physicist Robert R. Alfano and his IUSL research group at The City College of New York is the recipient of two…

Credit: Josh Lupton, MD, Oregon Health & Science University and resident editor, Academic Emergency Medicine journal DES PLAINES, IL -- Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) performed by emergency physicians with advanced training…