Articles Tagged With: survival
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Provider Perceptions of Neonatal Survival for Fetuses Born at 22 Weeks of Gestation
Prognostic differences exist among neonatal and obstetric care providers when neonates are delivered at 22 weeks of gestation. However, there are no statistically significant differences in the gestational age at which providers recommend active treatment or antenatal corticosteroids.
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Early Convalescent Plasma to Treat COVID-19 in Elderly Patients with Mild Symptoms
Administering convalescent plasma obtained from survivors of COVID-19 within 72 hours of onset of mild symptoms in elderly patients with the virus was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of development of severe respiratory disease.
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‘I Was Blessed to Have Survived COVID-19’: A Firsthand Account of Beating the Virus
A nurse who contracted and survived the virus describes symptoms, details her treatment regimen, and shares lessons learned.
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Clostridioides difficile Infection: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation vs. Antibiotics
Relative to vancomycin or metronidazole treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, treatment with fecal microbiota transplantation is associated with a lower risk of bloodstream infection, shorter hospital length of stay, and improved survival.
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Optimizing AED Placement Locations
A study of the location of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) compared to the location of automatic external defibrillators (AED) in Denmark showed that if the placements of AEDs more closely matched the location of OHCAs, bystander defibrillation and 30-day survival would improve.
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Playing Opossum: A New Model of Antibiotic and Immune Resistance
Researchers observed nongrowing cells of Salmonella that remained persistent, resisted antibiotics, and retained infectivity.
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Sepsis Management: What We Think We Know
In the Protocolized Resuscitation in Sepsis Meta-Analysis (PRISM), 3,723 patients’ outcomes from the ProCESS, ARISE, and ProMISe randomized, controlled trials of early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) were evaluated. EGDT did not result in better outcomes than usual care and was associated with higher costs. The authors of a second study looked at outcomes of 49,331 patients with sepsis treated in New York from April 2014 to June 2016. More rapid completion of the three-hour sepsis bundle and antibiotic administration (but not rapid bolus administration of IV fluids) was associated with reduced in-hospital mortality.