Critical Care/Emergency Medicine

As part of nationwide efforts to improve emergency medical care, researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System, in collaboration with UC San Diego Health, have released a national framework report titled "Promoting Innovations in Emergency…

Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications Journal (Volume 3 Issue 3)Credit: Compuscript 2019 The journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published a new issue, Volume 3 Issue 3. This is a Special Issue on…

Heart Care Navigation Team provides bridge between hospital and home A program designed to help heart attack patients with the transition from hospital to outpatient care can reduce readmissions and deaths and increase the number of…

Antiseptic soap, mouthwash, and nose ointment after hospital discharge reduced infections and infection-associated hospitalizations due to MRSA in high-risk patients Hospital patients who have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus…

Previous FDA approval could fast-track new treatmentCredit: Dan Addison | University Communications An antidepressant drug used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder could save people from deadly sepsis, new research from the University…

Task sharing in Sierra Leone -- teaching emergency surgery to health officers -- can help improve healthcare in a country with few doctorsCredit: Magnus Endal, CapaCare Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the…

Preclinical study of deactivated platelets describes promising new approach to treating diseasesCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University WASHINGTON (Feb. 13, 2019)--A new reversible, drug-free antiplatelet therapy could reduce the risk…

Heart disease, stroke, sepsis, and cancer collectively cause the greatest number of deaths worldwide. They also have something else in common: all of them are associated with activated platelets, the cells that circulate in our…

Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS--A breakthrough test developed by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers to measure pain in patients could help stem the tide of the opioid crisis in Indiana, and…

Study is first to analyze public health impact of emerging personal transportation option UCLA researchers have found that people involved in electric scooter accidents are sometimes injured badly enough -- from fractures, dislocated…