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15 years after ACL knee reconstruction, 84 percent of male patients still highly active, study says
Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a new study. Additionally, these patients have not developed severe osteoarthritis and their knees remain stable.
Medical ID Thefts Can Harm Patients’ Health; Prosecutors Go After Medicare Fraud
News outlets covered different aspects of fraud in the health care system. NPR/KSMU: “Experts say a different type of identity theft is on the rise — one that could compromise both the victim’s credit and physical safety…
Neb. Bill Would Ban Abortion After 20 Weeks On Basis Of ‘Fetal Pain’
On Thursday, a Nebraska Legislature committee heard testimony on an abortion ban bill (LB 1103) that would require physicians to determine the probable gestational age of a fetus before an abortion and prohibit the procedure after 20 weeks’ gestation on the basis that the fetus might experience pain, the Lincoln Journal Star reports…
Acetaminophen Protects Kidneys After Muscle Injury
Severe muscle injuries – such as crush injuries suffered in earthquakes, car accidents and explosions, and muscle damage from excessive exercise or statin drug interactions – can cause life-threatening kidney damage. Treatment has been limited to intravenous fluids and dialysis, but a new study suggests that the commonly used pain reliever acetaminophen may protect the kidneys from damage…
Bacterial Super-Infection After The Flu
Current research suggests that the flu may predispose to secondary bacterial infections, which account for a significant proportion of mortality during flu pandemics. The related report by Lee et al, “A mouse model of lethal synergism between influenza virus and Haemophilus influenzae,” appears in the February 2010 issue of The American Journal of Pathology…
New Approach To Postsurgical Monitoring After Surgery Could Keep Patients Out Of ICUs
A simple yet enormously effective patient surveillance system implemented by anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, New Hampshire has proven to dramatically decrease the number of rescue calls and intensive care unit transfers in postsurgical patients, allowing doctors to intervene in more cases before a crisis situation develops. Andreas H. Taenzer, M.D., F…
Effectively Relieving Pain After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Fibrin sealant has been an extremely effective and widely used adjunct to surgical procedures to control diffuse slow bleeding over large surfaces. In addition, fibrin sealant has been used as a carrier for other compounds. Thus, it has been used to release medicines slowly at a fixed site and is therefore effective for a long time…
After 20-Year Decline, Disability May Be On The Rise Again
Disability rates among non-institutionalized older Americans increased between 2000 and 2005, a trend that could seriously impact the quality of life of seniors in the coming decades if it continues, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley…
Intravenous Lidocaine Aids Pain Control After Ambulatory Surgery
Although lidocaine is most often used as a local anesthetic, low doses of lidocaine given intravenously can help to control pain after common ambulatory surgery procedures, suggests a study in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)…
Intensive, Progressive Physical Therapist Exercise Program Plus Educationreduces Disability And Improves Patient Function After Back Surgery
Patients who have undergone a single-level lumbar microdiskectomy for lumbar disk herniation experienced significant improvement in physical function following an intensive, progressive physical therapist guided exercise and education program, according to a research report published in the November issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
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