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Tracheostomy in patients with long-term mechanical ventilation: A survey (sciencedirect)

SJCRG:
Tracheostomy is often associated with ICU and issues of the ederly. Medicine seems to have an easier time to decide when a patient should go on it than when it should be removed. Here is an interesting link on the topic

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by infocus - February 8, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Categories: Drugs and Devices, Patient Care, aging, care quality, elderly, hospice, nursing home, vegetative state Tags: CareResourceGuide, Long-term, Mechanical, Patients, sciencedirect, sjcrg, survey, Tracheostomy, ventilation

New Mechanical Pump Offers Heart-Failure Patients an Alternative to a Transplant (WSJ)

SJCRG: Less good than a transplant, but getting a transplant is difficult, looks like a worthwhile alternative or stop gap.

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by infocus - December 15, 2009 at 10:33 pm

Categories: CHF, heart disease Tags: Alternative, Mechanical, New, Patients, Pump Heart-Failure, sjcrg, transplant, wsj

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