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The cytokine interleukin-6 plays an important role in triggering the rapid damage to heart muscle function that can develop in people with septic shock following infection with meningococci, a condition that often is fatal. The team making that discovery says it will be important to investigate IL-6 as a target for therapeutic agents.
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Compared to the sunny weather outside, attendees at the 29th annual International Stroke Conference inside the beautiful San Diego Convention Center in early February were confronted with the ongoing frustrations of limited therapeutic options for the 750,000 often-devastating strokes that occur annually in the U.S.
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While its competitors waged full-scale war on the PR front over the past month, St. Jude Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) bided its time, awaiting the presentation of results from key clinical trials at the American College of Cardiology (Bethesda, Maryland) meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, in early March.
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Pediatrics program just the beginning of safety overhaul; Duke identifies corrective plan of action for patient safety
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At Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, for example, several years of ongoing meetings with community physicians created awareness of how the facilitys ED handled transfers. It also engendered valuable interpersonal relationships among medical professionals, while the facility improved communications through centralized phone and computer transfer capabilities.
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Denver Health Medical Center is being sued by a patient who claims that two hospital workers took a photograph of his genitals while he lay unconscious in their ED last February. Could a hospital be held liable for such accusations?
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The ED at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, MN, has been able to increase the percentage of criteria blood draws from 31% to 41% one of the keys to slashing lab specimen turnaround time. But since only a specific percentage of patients meet the criteria at any given time, how is that possible?
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In 1997, the ED at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN, was in the 45th percentile in South Bend, IN-based Press Ganey Associates satisfaction rankings. That same year, Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, languished in the ninth percentile.
