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Uncategorized Published - 25 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Is Surgery Necessary for Children with Appendicitis?

Author: Beata Mostafavi M Health Lab Antibiotics may be enough to spare the appendix for some kids, with similar outcomes to surgery a year later and fewer days of missed school and other activities. The most common reason children end up in the emergency department for abdominal surgery starts with a bad stomachache and ends […]

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Uncategorized Published - 25 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Alcohol intake linked to increased risk of hypertension in adults with Type 2 diabetes

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. News of Medical Life Sciences Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages a week may increase the risk of high blood pressure (also called hypertension) among adults with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
SARS-CoV-2 viral load predicts mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 with, without cancer

By Denise Baez DG Alerts High admission severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral load predicts mortality in hospitalised patients with and without cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Cell. Lars F. Westblade, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, and colleagues looked at cycle threshold (Ct) values from reverse transcription-polymerase […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Hypertension Tied to Epistaxis Risk

By Kelly Young NEJM Journal Watch Edited by William E. Chavey, MD, MS Hypertension is associated with higher risk for epistaxis requiring treatment, suggests a retrospective study in JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery. Using South Korean national databases, researchers matched roughly 36,000 adults with hypertension to 36,000 without hypertension. Patients with other epistaxis risk factors were excluded. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Prehospital Trauma Management: We Can Do More by Doing Less

By Mike Clumpner, PhD, MBA, NREMT-P et al Journal of Emergency Medical Services Sometimes, the best medicine is the decision to avoid unnecessary interventions, the authors write. Prehospital trauma management has changed significantly in the last 30 years. Despite the advances in prehospital medicine, data from evidence-based medicine, and effective hemorrhage control strategies, trauma patients still […]

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