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Original Source: Triage Assessment in Pediatric Emergency Departments: A National Survey.
OBJECTIVES:: Because of the varying physiological and developmental stages in children, the taking of vital signs and other assessments at triage in an emergency department (ED) can be challenging. The purpose of this study was to examine current triage practices in pediatric EDs in the United States. METHODS:: A mailed survey was sent in August 2006 to the medical directors of the 99 pediatric EDs listed on the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions Web site, with follow-up m...
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When a patient has had a serious accident and lost a lot of blood, or has a blood disorder, their own blood can be replaced with blood that has been donated by other people. Because of the differe...
Tricuspid stenosis is a narrowing of the tricuspid valve opening that increases resistance to blood flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle.Over many years, the right atrium enlarges becau...
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Alere recalls certain heart tests
Alere is voluntarily recalling 104 lots of its Triage D-dimer, Triage BNP and Triage cardiology panels that were manufactured -More-
Alere reports Triage PlGF blood test positive results
Alere has presented positive results from PELICAN clinical trial,designed to assess the safety and efficacy of Triage placental growth factor (PlGF) blood test in diagnosing pre-eclampsia in women wit...
Blood Pressure Lower When Yogurt Part Of Diet
Adding more yogurt to your diet without increasing the number of calories you eat may help lower your risk of high blood pressure, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association...
Yogurt May Protect Against High Blood Pressure
A new study finds adding low calorie yogurt to your diet may help lower your risk of high blood pressure. The new information presented at the American Heart Association's High Blood Pressure Research...
Kids In Hospital With High Blood Pressure Double In Ten Years, US
The number of children seen as inpatients in US hospitals nearly doubled in the ten years leading up to 2006, according to a new study published online in the journal Hypertension this week that also...
Eating Yogurt May Protect Against High Blood Pressure
A new study has suggested that adding low calorie yogurt to your diet may help lower your risk of high blood pressure. The new information presented at the American Heart Association's High Blood Pres...
High Blood Pressure Ages The Brain
New research led by the University of California (UC) Davis found accelerated brain aging among young middle-aged people with high blood pressure, and even among those whose blood pressure would not...
Chronotherapy improves blood pressure control and reduces vascular risk in CKD
The prevalence of increased blood pressure during sleep and a blunted sleep-time-relative blood pressure decline is high in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and increases with disease severi...
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Triage Assessment in Pediatric Emergency Departments: A National Survey.
OBJECTIVES:: Because of the varying physiological and developmental stages in children, the taking of vital signs and other assessments at triage in an emergency department (ED) can be challenging. Th...
Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow Pressure Autoregulation in Pediatric Patients During Cardiac Surgery.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The limits of cerebral blood flow-pressure autoregulation have not been adequately defined for pediatric patients. Mean arterial blood pressure below these limits might contrib...
A concept for major incident triage: full-scaled simulation feasibility study.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Efficient management of major incidents involves triage, treatment and transport. In the absence of a standardised interdisciplinary major incident management approach, the Norwe...
Pain assessments at triage with the Manchester triage system: a prospective observational study.
Objective Pain is one of the six general discriminators of the Manchester triage system (MTS). The frequency of pain assessments conducted at triage with the MTS, and patient, nurse and triage charact...
Interrater agreement: a comparison between two emergency department triage scales.
OBJECTIVE: The aim was to elucidate if, by strictly applying the Adaptive Process Triage (ADAPT) scale, the interrater agreement increased among the participating registered nurses (RNs) than when tri...
