Non-physician providers in the ICU.

While this study is only retrospective and mortality rate was the only measure, it does contribute to this needed conversation about PA’s and NP’s care. ICU Outcomes No Different Without Physician Staffing | National Nursing News With ICUs facing staff shortages that are predicted to worsen in the future, a recent study suggests that non-physician [...]

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Een(t)weetje: @FamHealthGuide Squeeze an Arm, Protect the Heart

ScienceDaily (June 8, 2011) — Scientists at the University of Leicester are investigating a novel technique that promises to protect heart muscle from life-threatening damage following a heart attack — simply by squeezing an arm. Heart attacks are the major cause of premature death in England, with massive implications for survival and costs of long-term [...]

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Society for Complexity in Acute Illness.

I had a chance to listen Dr. Andriy Batchinsky about his approach to study complexity of acute Illness using application of nonlinear analysis techniques to investigation of cardiovascular regulatory complexity during hemorrhagic shock, burn shock and resuscitation, combined trauma animal models, as well as for non-invasive assessment of trauma patients.  He mentioned me another group have heavily using simulation [...]

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Telemedicine improves mortality rates for heart failure patients.

By Sara Jackson.   After finding no overall benefit for congestive heart failure patients using telemedicine, researchers of a Dutch and a German telehealth study, respectively, decided to dig a little deeper. What they uncovered were several subsets of CHF patients who saw statistically significant benefits from telemedicine in terms of improved mortality rates and [...]

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-Safe to Double-Up Stenting Carotid, Coronary Arteries-

Complex, high surgical risk patients with concomitant carotid and coronary artery disease could successfully undergo combined percutaneous stenting treatment, a longterm analysis found. Click here for the full story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/PeripheralArteryDisease/26542

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-Schrijven we straks nog sollicitatiebrieven?-

-Virtuele DNA-pitch in 58 seconden-

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-Hospital hand washing compliance improved using a mobile app-

According to a study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s annual meeting, the iScrub app for iPhone and iPod Touch is effective in increasing hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers. The iScrub app improves over conventional systems to monitor hand hygiene by eliminating the need for extra staffing and transcription of observation [...]

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-van werken ga je niet dood- of toch…..

Wie hard werkt verhoogt zijn kansen op een hartaanval. Bij een werkdag van 11 uur of langer stijgt het risico met bijna 70 procent vergeleken met een normale 9 tot 5 shift. Dat blijkt uit een Brits onderzoek bij 7.000 ambtenaren sinds 1985. De stress van het werken “verandert het lichaam”, aldus de studie van [...]

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