Choice of intravenous fluid therapy could improve survival in critically ill patients
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Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Choice of intravenous fluid therapy could improve survival in critically ill patients November 30, 2023 George Institute for Global Health Results of a new meta-analysis in shows that intravenous fluid IV therapy using balanced solutions rather than commonly used saline can reduce the risk of in-hospital death of critically ill patients by four . percent Findings from the BEST-Living Study were presented today at the Critical Care Canada Forum CCCF 2023 and simultaneously published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Prof Simon Finfer AO , an Intensive Care physician , Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health , and Adjunct Professor , UNSW Sydney who was the
Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Conscientious personalities less at risk of dementia diagnosis November 29, 2023 UC Davis People with personality traits such as conscientiousness , extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect , according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California , Davis and Northwestern University . The difference was not linked to physical damage to brain tissue found in dementia patients , but more likely to how certain personality traits help people navigate dementia-related . impairments The work is published Nov . 29 in Alzheimer’s  Dementia : The Journal of the Alzheimer’s
Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Hearing âbad grammarâ results in physical signs of stress â new study reveals November 29, 2023 University of Birmingham In Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours : Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge published in the Journal of Neurolinguistics , Professors Dagmar Divjak , Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham , and Professor Petar Milin , Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning , discovered a direct correlation between instances of bad grammar and subjectsâ Heart Rate Variability HRV HRV captures the time between successive heart beats . The length of
Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Eye-safe laser technology to diagnose traumatic brain injury November 29, 2023 University of Birmingham The novel technology is expected to be developed into a hand-held device for use in the critical âgolden hourâ after traumatic brain injury . Researchers from the University of Birmingham  have designed and developed a novel diagnostic device to detect traumatic brain injury TBI by shining a safe laser into the . eye Described in Science Advances the technique is dramatically different from other diagnostic methods and is expected to be developed into a hand-held device for use in the critical âgolden hourâ after traumatic brain injury , when life critical decisions
Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Psychological science can help counter spread of misinformation November 29, 2023 American Psychological Association Debunking , âprebunking,â nudging and teaching digital literacy are several of the more effective ways to counter misinformation , according to a new report from the American Psychological . Association Written by a panel of U.S . and international experts on the psychology of misinformation , the report outlines the processes that make people susceptible to misinformation and offers solutions to combat . it People are more likely to believe misinformation if it comes from groups they belong to or if they judge the source as credible , according to the report 
Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Nanodiamonds block tumor metastasis in mice November 28, 2023 South Asian University Effect of treatment with carbon nanodiamonds on the growth and metastasis of B16F10-Luc2 tumor in mice by bioluminescence imaging . Nanodiamonds are 2-8 nm carbon nanoparticles , which can be easily functionalized with various chemical groups like carboxylic groups or . drugs Previous research has shown that actively dividing cells are more likely to absorb nanodiamonds and that epithelial cells treated with carboxylic nanodiamonds lose the ability to migrate across cell permeable cellulose . membranes Rajiv K . Saxena and colleagues explored whether nanodiamonds might block tumor metastasis , a
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