Nursing: Patient Management

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05/01/2006

Rapid growth in wearable wireless monitoring

Wireless networking, already widely adopted by healthcare facilities across Germany, France and the United Kingdom, is set for "rapid growth", according to a report by the global …

03/01/2005

HF shower to treat pain and depression

In the first six months of 2004, over 17,000 people sought help and advice from the German Pain Union (Deutsche Schmerzliga), which demonstrates the high number of people, in …

03/01/2005

Respected not rejected

The Hartmann European Care Award 2004 has been presented to Dagmar Erdkönig, Petra Makara and Claudia Reicher of Austria. …

03/01/2005

Information helps healing

Most patients who receive health information change lifestyle and believe they reap benefits, according to a study carried out in Europe and the USA. …

07/01/2004

Streamlining rehabilitation

Germany - Rehabilitation clinics are taking on an increasingly important role, because the country's Social Security Code indicates that, where possible, rehabilitation is …

07/01/2004

The UK's National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses

With increasing numbers of nurses specialising the care of lung cancer patients, The National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses (NLCFN) was established in 1997 to offer them a network …

07/01/2003

The high cost of bipolar disorder

The most expensive behavioural healthcare diagnosis, for sufferers and their insurers, is bipolar disorder, according to a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry …

07/01/2003

Patients link with mobiles

Another new system introduced at Bad Reichenhall's city hospital, allows nurses to talk with patients and ascertain whether their calls are due to an emergency or for a non-urgent …

04/30/2003

Hygiene: pre-surgical hair removal

Preoperative removal of hair from an operative site is important measures for avoiding postoperative wound infections. …

04/30/2003

Mobiles to monitor asthma and diabetes

UK - A hand-sized, electronic peak flow meter, which measures lung capacity and can be connected to a PDA mobile handset is being tested for use by asthma sufferers. …

04/30/2003

Wheelchair guidance by facial movements

Visual interfaces facilitate natural and simple interfaces for human-robot interaction. Nowadays there are many applications using these, such as teleconferencing with improved …

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