In Global News: "What the HF?," Transfusion Facts, and the Right Age for Oral Intubation [1]
Patient Care
A Brazilian woman ran a road race in Rio de Janiero, powered by the transplanted heart [3] of a German Olympian that she had received only a year earlier.
A suspicious shadow showed up on the x-ray of a UK man’s lung, but surprisingly and luckily turned out to be a toy traffic cone he had swallowed as a child [4].
Queen Latifah and the American Heart Association are teaming up to raise awareness [5] about heart failure, asking “What the HF?” [6]
The September issue of The Surgeons’ Lounge delves into myths and facts about blood transfusion [7].
Drugs and Devices
The European Medicines Agency gave a positive opinion to a once-a-day triple-drug inhaler for COPD [8] made by GlaxoSmithKline.
Research, Trials, and Funding
Oral intubation might be a better choice than nasal intubation for anesthesia in children over 6 months old [9] undergoing cardiac surgery.
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts are developing a device to better monitor tissue oxygen levels [10] as a way to predict impending cardiac failure.