Postoperative Pain Control After Shoulder Arthroscopy Ortho SuperSite, NJ - Nov 19, 2008 Constant infusion devices consist of multiport catheters inserted with a needle into the surgical site (subacromial space or glenohumeral joint) at the end ...
Growing List of Experts Calls for ?Real World? Drug Studies MedHeadlines, IL - Nov 25, 2008 Each patient enrolls for the study on a voluntary basis, knowing all along he or she will be randomly assigned an infusion of nesiritide to ease breathing ...
Llew Keltner ? Battling solid tumours with light Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, UK - Q1: Light Sciences Oncology (LSO) has developed its Light Infusion Therapy (Litx) for the treatment of solid tumours. What makes this technology a safer and ...
How Washington hospitals unleashed a MRSA epidemic PhysOrg.com, VA - Nov 19, 2008 The bacterium could drop into a wound during surgery and touch off numerous complications, even death. Velte didn't know it, but at least 66 patients who ...
Trellis(R) Peripheral Infusion System Removes Blood Clots in ... Earthtimes (press release), UK - Nov 20, 2008 There were no reported bleeding complications related to the Trellis device in acute follow up and the dosage of thrombolytic drugs such as t-PA was reduced ...
Protein C deficiency National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia (press release), NY - Nov 15, 2008 In addition, surgical intervention for the management of viscous thromboembolic complications, such as bowel infarct, also poses a challenge with regard to ...
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Antithrombin Deficiency National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia (press release), NY - Nov 22, 2008 Antithrombin can be replaced in deficient patients using an intravenous infusion of a highly purified, human, blood-derived antithrombin protein (Thrombate ...
Thirty-Seven Patients Treated With Ultrasound Accelerated Catheter ... Medical News Today (press release), UK - Nov 24, 2008 Mean duration of tPA infusion was 16.4?10-hours. A single patient had a neck hematoma secondary to an inadvertent central line placement and subsequently ...
Complete heart block associated with device closure of ... The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Nov 24, 2008 Emergency treatment with an isoproterenol infusion and transvenous pacing was initiated. The parents declined a trial of corticosteroids, and the device was ...
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Infusions Cut Surgical Complications for Alcoholic Patients
THURSDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term alcohol use raises the risk of infection after surgery, and post-surgery pneumonia rates are three to four times higher in alcoholics. But a new study may help many patients avoid those dangers.
German researchers say infusions of low-dose ethanol, morphine or ketoconazole (an anti-fungal agent) dramatically reduced the rate of post-surgical pneumonia -- from 39 percent to 5.7 percent -- in alcoholic patients who had aerodigestive tract surgery for cancer.
The aerodigestive tract refers to the combined organs and tissues of the respiratory tract and upper parts of the digestive tract, including the lips, mouth, tongue, nose, throat, vocal cords and part of the esophagus and windpipe.
According to a team from Charite-University Medicine Berlin, the infusions began just before surgery and continued until three days after surgery.
The experimental treatments shortened patients' ICU stays by nine days, the study of 53 patients found. Those who received the treatment stayed in the ICU for two days, compared to 11 days for those who received the placebo.
The findings were published in the current issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The researchers believe the infusions helped inhibit cortisol response in the patients. High levels of cortisol are common in long-term alcoholics after they've had surgery. Elevated levels of this hormone cause immune suppression and are associated with increased infection rates.
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