NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When inserting a feeding tube through the nose, a pacifier and a squirt of sugar water can help relieve pain in preterm babies,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stroke patients who receive care in a stroke unit combined with early supported discharge are more likely to be living at home 5…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized, double-blinded trial of 54 infants with tachypnea, a dose of inhaled salbutamol improved respiratory rate, inspired oxygen, and other measures…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Routine repeat computed tomography (CT) scans aren’t necessary in patients with traumatic head injury who don’t have deteriorating neurological status, concludes a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In surgical patients at high risk of contaminated incisions, a simple protocol of daily wound probing reduces the rate of surgical site infections,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ceftazidime and amikacin delivered by nebulizer is as effective as intravenous administration in treating ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Phase III trial found that inhaled mannitol helped decrease respiratory symptoms in patients with cystic fibrosis. In the study, published in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) come down with community-acquired pneumonia, whether or not they use inhaled corticosteroids has no effect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding extra protein to enteral nutrition for critically ill children is safe and may help improve their protein metabolism, Spanish researchers report. Critically…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative antibiotics started more than 24 hours before cardiac surgery may be more effective than shorter-duration prophylaxis in preventing sternal surgical site infections,…