patient discomfort Articles
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Landmark Study Shows a 0% Blood Culture Contamination Rate is Achievable with Steripath
As a professor in infectious disease and microbiology, epidemiologist, and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Stanford Health Care, Dr. Lucy S. Tompkins was skeptical that a 0% blood culture contamination rate could be achieved, especially in a major academic medical center. Study Results In an oral abstract of the Steripath Gen2 Initial Specimen Diversion Device® ...
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Treatment for Dentin Hypersensitivity using 980nm
Do you suddenly find that your teeth become very fragile, you will start to have a toothache when you drink cold water, eat ice-cream, and even when you brush your teeth? This is the symptom of tooth sensitivity. Compared to conventional desensitizing topical agents, the laser treatment leads to rapid results with less application time and more quickly for the patient. The discomfort of patients ...
By PIOON
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New Breast Imaging Technology: The Koning Difference
Revolutionizing breast cancer detection Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer death in American women.1 It is also treatable if detected early enough. While there are various cancer detection modalities available, current breast imaging devices fail to expose as much as 35% of breast cancers and that number increases to ...
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A less invasive approach to treating sudden cardiac arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), a life-threatening emergency that occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating, is a leading cause of death throughout the developed world. As its name suggests, SCA happens suddenly and with little warning. As a result, out of the nearly 350 000 European lives that SCA claims every year, 95 % die before they reach the hospital. The only accepted method for treating ...
By NewPace Ltd.
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Facing Treatment of Kidney Disease with Hearing Disabilities
Around 37 million people in the United States and around 700 million people worldwide have chronic kidney disease which require patients to utilize dialysis centers. These dialysis clinics provide lifesaving treatments to the patients that need them. While having any medical procedure performed, communication between the healthcare provider and the patient is vital to ...
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APBI with VeraForm & SAVI Brachytherapy: Marking for the Unpredictable
Our Medical Director of the Oncology Breast Program, Dr. Beth DuPree, was first in the U.S. to adopt VeraForm, a continuous, radiopaque 3D tissue marker. Within months, its utility led to quick integration into our program’s standard daily practice. Like all centers today, patient satisfaction is a focal point and to date, we have seen no complications or toxicities by any criteria (e.g., ...
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Diagnosing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has recently been recognized as the single greatest unmet need in cardiovascular medicine, overtaking heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and becoming the most common form of heart failure, with a prevalence that is increasing by 1% annually.[1] Despite this, there remains no gold standard in diagnosing HFpEF. Diagnosing ...
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