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Image: MouthLab prototype of a hand-held, portable device that quickly picks up and reports patient vital signs, with potential to replace bulky hospital and ambulance vital sign monitors and to provide at-home personal monitoring (Photo courtesy of Yuankui Zhu: Johns Hopkins Medicine).

Easy-to-Use Portable Device Quickly Measures Vital Signs

Researchers have developed a 3D-printed, novel hand-held device with sensors that quickly test a patient’s blood pressure, blood oxygen, breathing rate, heart rate, and heartbeat pattern. Updated versions of the prototype could replace hospital vital sign monitors and could gather more data than is typically collected during medical assessment in an ambulance, emergency room, doctor’s office, or patient’s home.  More...
09 Sep 2015

Prompt Adrenaline Use Reduces Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Mortality

Timely use of epinephrine is associated with increased survival among hospitalized children suffering a non-shockable cardiac rhythm arrest, according to a new study.   More...
08 Sep 2015
Image: The Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM system (Photo courtesy of Dexcom).

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Goes Wireless

An innovative continuous glucose monitoring system discreetly monitors and shares glucose levels over cellular networks.  More...
08 Sep 2015
Image: The FcMBL blood-cleansing device (Photo courtesy of Wyss Institute at Harvard University).

Sepsis Therapeutic Device Cleans Infected Blood

A novel blood-cleansing device based on a genetically engineered pathogen-capturing protein works by mimicking spleen function.  More...
07 Sep 2015

Cardiologists Fail to Identify Basic Heart Murmurs

Cardiologists failed to identify more than half of basic and about 35% of advanced prerecorded heart murmurs, according to a new study.  More...
06 Sep 2015
Image: The spatially-resolved NIRS (SR-NIRS) probe (Photo courtesy of  EUSTC).

Spectroscopic Probe Monitors Hemorrhagic Shock

A novel, noninvasive near-infrared spectroscopy device assesses hemorrhagic shock severity as accurately as a standard blood draw.  More...
02 Sep 2015
Image: Toxicology resident Dr. Peter Chai wearing Google Glass (Photo courtesy of UMASS).

Google Glass Effective for Teletoxicology Consultations

A new study confirms that Google Glass can be used effectively for bed-side emergency room toxicology consults in suspected cases of poisoning.   More...
01 Sep 2015
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