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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This would mean that instituting sepsis screening would lead to escalating treatment in patients – transferring them to the ICU, escalating antibiotics, bringing in more consultants – without benefiting them. Outcomes and patients The primary outcome was 90-day in-hospital mortality. And this is in-hospital mortality.

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Do you think a bone marrow transplant is worth it?

Sensible Medicine

There are nights when you the leave the hospital, but your mind remains behind. “I am on bone marrow transplant— which basically means that for some people with blood cancer we transfer a different person’s immune system into them. The dinner was supposed to begin at 8pm, but I didn’t arrive till 9pm.

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Nurse Allegedly Refused to Send an Ambulance for Migrant Child Who Died in Custody

Scrubs

Records show the child suffered from sickle cell anemia and heart disease, but the agency confirmed that Border Patrol officials and medical professionals allegedly repeatedly denied requests to send Reyes Alvarez to a hospital. The family was being held there after Reyes Alvarez tested positive for the flu. near Brownsville, Texas.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. non-hospital) medical groups with significant at-risk (e.g. Source: UNH 10K, Kaiser Annual Report Optum Health receives $57.7

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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers. .  They say that there is nothing worse than dying alone. ii Whoever “they” are also say that we all die alone.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

This is an astounding difference in the quality of sleep, and to this day, premature infants in the hospital are slept on their stomachs. One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 68% of those transferred were moved to older ages.”

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25 Technology Grants for Healthcare Startups

Arkenea

NCCIH (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health) Proposal The NCCIH in the United States is accepting proposals and recommendations from medical device developers for Small Business Technology Transfer Grants. Each pilot project will test a technology prototype in a healthcare setting for a period of approximately 4-9 months.