Nursing: Patient Management
11/15/2007
Stresspilot navigates to a healthier life
Be active and live healthy! You would love to do that but you are too busy just trying to juggle your daily life? Help might be underway: the Stress Pilot. Developed by …
11/15/2007
Bids begin to increase telecare
At Telecare 2007 exhibition held in Birmingham, UK, this September, Moira Mackenzie, the Scottish Executives Telecare Programme Manager spoke of aim of the countrys new …
11/14/2007
Tissue adhesive not sutures
Germany Rather than the time consuming procedure of suturing a wound, Epiglu simply needs adapting to size then application. …
11/14/2007
Close to baby
Every young mother wants to be as close as possible to her newborn baby. The "Leipiziger Wanne", the "Leipzig tub", developed by German engineering company NEL, can fulfil this …
11/14/2007
POC diabetes management
The DCA Vantage Analyser from Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics is a user-friendly, point-of-care (POC) patient management platform for diabetes. …
11/14/2007
PD-Q: A screening tool to identify neuropathic components in pain patients
Every fifth European is suffering chronic pain, according to the recent Pain in Europe Survey. However, there are pains and other kinds of pain, as particularly seen in …
11/09/2007
Spotlight on patient safety
Medical errors occur in any part of the treatment process and typically involve the wrong medication, improper treatment, or incorrect or delayed test results. At its annual …
08/31/2007
A deeper view of wound infections
Launched last year, the Wound Infection Institute (WII), supported by Smith & Nephew Wound Management, now has a 130-strong membership, which include leading clinicians and …
08/31/2007
The hydro-active wound dressing
The German firm Hartmann reports that Hydrotul, its new hydrocolloid impregnated dressing, combines the benefits of conventional impregnated dressings with those of hydro-active …
08/31/2007
Saving diabetics feet
Diabetic foot syndrome (DFS) is one of the most serious sequela of diabetes mellitus - Disease management programmes (DMP) yield first results …
06/26/2007
New insights, algorithms and debates
For the first time in 33 years, wound healing was the focus of a dedicated session at the 33rd annual VEITHsymposium for vascular surgeons in New York (11/06). This underscores …
05/16/2007
Guest patient boom is a fizzle
"The world at home in German hospitals" - that was the hope of many German hospitals which wanted to attract well-heeled foreign patients to bolster their budgets. The high …
03/08/2007
Better records reveal more bugs
UK - According to new figures obtained from death certificates by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 69% to 3,800 in the …
03/08/2007
Nutrition and health
According to figures released in 2006 by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), around 14 million children, aged 7-11 years, are overweight - and three million of these are …
03/08/2007
What wounds tell us
Every day, patients are admitted to surgeries, hospitals and outpatient clinics with chronic wounds. Careful inspection gives a wound therapist clues to the appropriate primary …
12/18/2006
The Pain-free Hospital Pilot project successfully completed in five hospitals
The first five out of a total of 25 German hospitals have just been awarded the certification "Qualified Pain Therapy" with the completion of the pilot project "Pain-free …
11/16/2006
Solution revolution for bleeding control
A new biodegradable solution has stopped bleeding in animals wounds within seconds, according to a report in the journal Nanomedicine. …
08/30/2006
Asthma - Bavarias novel care programme for youngsters
Thousands of children are hospitalised annually due to acute asthma attack. Special treatment, adapted to their individual needs, could prevent such emergencies. …
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