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Ethicists: Clinicians aren’t wrong to expect involvement from certain patients’ families—but they wouldn’t be right to request it, either

Many nurses have spent untold hours at the bedsides of frail and fading inpatients who, despite having blood relatives in the vicinity, rarely receive visitors. In these scenarios, it’s only human for a healthcare worker to feel some measure of resentment toward the absentee family.

ACC highlights importance of cognitive impairment, frailty when treating older heart patients

In a new report, the American College of Cardiology emphasized five key ways to enhance care for elderly patients presenting with cognitive and frailty issues.

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Alzheimer’s can run but not hide from researchers, policymakers

The war on Alzheimer’s disease has been underway for so long that people can’t help but think it may be unwinnable. Now comes a fresh set of reasons to think again and hope anew. 

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Hospitals chipping away at maternal mortality one birth at a time

If you could help break the silence around the nation’s maternal mortality crisis for something like 1 cent per message, wouldn’t you make the spend? If so, know that a growing number of hospitals has already laid the groundwork. 

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Focused mental healthcare for young people delivers big savings to Canadian healthcare

A youth mental-health program, national in scale, has been shown to save a country’s public health system $4,000 a year per patient. And while it’s at it, the program helps young people overcome or better manage serious behavioral issues. 

Video: Amanda Randles, PhD, director of the Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, and professor of biomedical engineering, explains how her lab created a digital twin technology that can take patient imaging and data to recreate a digital model of the patient's coronary blood flow. The computational platform called HARVEY can simulate a patient's hemodynamics so accurately, it may eliminate the need for invasive coronary FFR pressure wires to diagnose heart disease.

Duke's digital twin technology could take hemodynamic assessments to a whole other level

Researchers at Duke are hard at work on digital twins that could help care teams make important treatment decisions. 

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FDA announces recall on ventilator components after 4 serious injuries

Hamilton Medical announced the recall in July. To date, there have been no deaths associated with the issue. 

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Drug-resistant, potentially fatal fungus now in more than half of US states

The CDC recently reminded hospitals and nursing homes about the hard-to-kill yeast’s penchant for preying on patients who have tubes, catheters or weakened immune systems.

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