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Uncategorized Published - 25 April, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
California hospital hit with lawsuit after secretly recording 1,800 surgeries

Author: Ayla Ellison  Becker’s Hospital Review A former patient filed a proposed class-action lawsuit April 17 against San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare and one of its hospitals after motion-activated cameras placed in operating rooms filmed more than 1,800 patients during surgeries without their consent. Sharp HealthCare officials said the cameras were installed on anesthesia carts used […]

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Uncategorized Published - 25 April, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Researchers Just 3D Printed The First-Ever Complete Heart Using Human Tissue

Author: VICTOR TANGERMANN FUTURISM In what the Israeli media is calling a “world’s first,” scientists at Tel Aviv University have 3D printed a small heart using human tissue that includes vessels, collagen, and biological molecules – a breakthrough, according to Haaretz, that they hope could one day render organ donation obsolete. The technology is still many years […]

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Uncategorized Published - 25 April, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Report: U.S. economic burden of chronic diseases tops $3.8 trillion—and expected to double

By Tina Reed Fierce Healthcare According to a report from Fitch Solutions, aggregate annual costs of the leading chronic medical conditions are approximately $1.1 trillion due to expenses from hospital care, physician visits, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and home care. The U.S. economic burden of chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and cancer […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 April, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Not as clean as you think: Privacy curtains in hospitals could be carrying deadly bacteria Read more at: //economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/68847569.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

The Economical Times Hospitals awash with antibiotics can become incubators of drug-resistant bacteria. Hard-to-clean privacy curtains in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide may be contaminated with deadly drug-resistant bugs, according to findings to be presented Saturday at an infectious diseases conference. More than a fifth of 1,500 samples taken from six post-acute care nursing facilities […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 April, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Effect of Intraoperative Goal-directed Balanced Crystalloid versus Colloid Administration on Major Postoperative Morbidity: A Randomized Trial

Authors: Barbara Kabon, M.D. et al Anesthesiology 5 2019, Vol.130, 728-744. What We Already Know about This Topic: Crystalloid solutions leave the circulation quickly, whereas colloids remain for hours, thus promoting hemodynamic stability. However, colloids are expensive and promote renal toxicity in critical care patients. Whether goal-directed intraoperative tetrastarch colloid administration reduces complications or promotes renal […]

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