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Critical Care Medicine

Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Related Brain Deficits Beaten By Green Tea Compounds

medicalnewstoday.com     7 hrs ago    1 related    Send to a friend

Chemicals found in green tea may be able to stave off the cognitive deficits that occur with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a new study published in the second issue for May of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Green tea compounds beat OSA-related brain deficits

brightsurf.com     May 15, 2008    6 related    Send to a friend

Chemicals found in green tea may be able to stave off the cognitive deficits that occur with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a new study published in the second issue for May of the American Thoracic Society_s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Gene Therapy Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results for Batten Disease

newswise.com     May 13, 2008    21 related    Send to a friend

Promising results from a team of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists show that gene therapy is both safe and effective at slowing the progression of Batten disease, or Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (LINCL), a rare, genetic, degenerative...

Pre-operative optimisation employing dopexamine or adrenaline for patients undergoing major...

gla.ac.uk     May 12, 2008    Send to a friend

Fenwick, E. and Wilson, J. and Sculpher, M.J. and Claxton, K. (2002) Pre-operative optimisation employing dopexamine or adrenaline for patients undergoing major elective surgery: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Intensive Care Medicine 28(5):pp. 599-608.

Exercising in the City? Don't Get Exhaust-ed; Take It Inside

newswise.com     May 9, 2008    Send to a friend

The dangers of urban air pollution are of special concern to those who exercise by running, bicycling or skating. These individuals, while trying to help their bodies through exercise, should take care that they do not harm themselves through exposure to air pollution.

Critical care & resuscitation

warwick.ac.uk     May 6, 2008    Send to a friend

Last updated: 16:16, Tue 6 May 2008 by WMS Web ManagerCompare previous version ... Perkins GD, Nathani N, McAuley DF, Gao F, Thickett DR (2007) In-vitro & in-vivo effects of salbutamol on neutrophil function in ARDS, Thorax; 62: 36-42 Perkins GD, Chatterjie S, McAuley DF,...

Children in intensive care often develop delusions

reutershealth.com     May 2, 2008    15 related    Send to a friend

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one of every three children treated in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) subsequently report delusional memories of the experience, including disturbing hallucinations, resembling symptoms of post-traumatic stress, according to a study in the American...

Asthma attacks worsened by obesity

reutershealth.com     May 2, 2008    15 related    Send to a friend

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In asthma patients, dynamic hyperinflation, following a test measure airway hypersensitivity, is greater in obese individuals than in their nonobese counterparts, which helps explain why asthma is perceived to be more severe in patients with a higher body mass index...

Study suggests sick children should be tranferred to specialty hospitals sooner

physorg.com     May 1, 2008    2 related    Send to a friend

Critically ill children admitted to the pediatric intensive care units of regional medical centers from smaller hospitals are sicker than those admitted directly from those centers' own emergency rooms, a study by pediatric critical care physicians at UC Davis Children's Hospital has found.

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of ventilator-associated lung injury after surfactant depletion

physiology.org     May 1, 2008    Send to a friend

Volutrauma and atelectrauma have been proposed as mechanisms of ventilator-associated lung injury, but few studies have compared their relative importance in mediating lung injury. The objective of our study was to compare the injury produced by stretch (volutrauma) vs. cyclical recruitment...