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By Brian P. Dunleavy UPI Survival among heart patients on a waiting list for a transplant has improved greatly over the past 30 years, a new study has found. Illustration courtesy Abiomed More than two-thirds of people on a waiting list for heart transplants survive for at least one year until a donor organ becomes […]
Read MoreAuthor: Moira McCarthy Healthline More knee and hip replacement surgeries are being done on an outpatient basis, especially in this COVID-19 era. Surgeons say the fact patients are at home forces them to move around more and do their physical therapy, speeding their recovery. They note that the outpatient surgery isn’t for everybody. A patient needs […]
Read MoreMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) can be a valuable adjunct respiratory therapy for pregnant women with severe and critical COVID-19, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has found. The delivery of the therapeutic gas to six COVID-19 pregnant patients admitted to MGH, as described in a paper in Obstetrics & […]
Read MoreBy Brian Dunleavy UPI The CDC’s ‘Tips’ campaign has helped inspire more than 1 million smokers to quit, a new analysis found. More than 1 million American adults quit smoking between 2012 and 2018 after seeing messages from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, according to figures released […]
Read MoreAuthors: Philip J. Peyton, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.B.S., F.A.N.Z.C.A. et al Anesthesiology August 2020, Vol. 133, 534–547. Background According to the “three-compartment” model of ventilation-perfusion () inequality, increased scatter in the lung under general anesthesia is reflected in increased alveolar deadspace fraction (Vda/Va) customarily measured using end-tidal to arterial (a-a) partial pressure gradients for carbon dioxide. a-a gradients […]
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