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In Global News: Marathons, Snapchat for Surgery, and Running Two Rooms [1]

Submitted by cvernon [2] on Fri, 2017-07-14 10:28

Patient Care

A father administered CPR to his infant son [3] in the car ride to the hospital in Mumbai, India, for complications related to a tumor in the child’s heart. He had learned CPR several months earlier in a training course at work.

Kaiser Health News discusses the practice of a surgeon “running two rooms,” [4] focusing on patient thoughts and questioning whether such multitasking is efficient.

Families at St Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri, USA, can receive Snapchat-like updates from the teams performing their child’s surgery [5].

According to the UK’s National Health Service, more than 50,000 people in the UK are alive today [6] because of an organ transplant.

Mount St John’s Medical Centre in Antigua & Barbuda performs its first pacemaker implantation [7].

 

Drugs and Devices

Data from the SURTAVI trial has lead the US Food and Drug Administration to approve a Medtronic TAVR/TAVI platform for use in intermediate-risk patients [8].

 

Research, Trials, and Funding

Researchers at Loyola Medicine in Chicago, USA, are enrolling patients in a major study of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome [9], a rare, hereditary lung disease that affects a disproportionately large number of Puerto Ricans.

Accra, Ghana, hosted the 20th Africa Union Conference on Lung Health this week [10], which focused on tuberculosis, tobacco use, and non-communicable diseases.

Running might be good for your heart, but perhaps running a marathon isn’t ideal [11].

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News from around the web.
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https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/global-news-marathons-snapchat-surgery-and-running-t… [1]
Taxonomy: 
Cardiac [12]
Congenital [13]
Lung [14]
Surgery [15]
Transplantation [16]
TAVR (TAVI) [17]
Vascular [18]
Author(s): 
Claire Vernon
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Transcatheter [19]
Cardiac [20]
Aortic valve disease [21]
Lung [22]
Congenital [23]
Transplant [24]
Vascular [25]
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