Food for Thought: Are Radiation Therapists Able to Recognize Patients Who Would Benefit from Dietary Counseling?

Who Would Have Thought?

Results of a study from Mississippi State University, working with the parents of more than 16,000 kids reveals big news. The study on self-control compared the scores of children exhibiting poor or unhappy behavior and how well they respected and worked with peers, to parents’ statements on how frequently they attended worship, talked with their children about religion, and argued about religi...

Can we identify patients with carotid occlusion who would benefit from EC/IC bypass? Review.

Occlusion of the internal carotid artery (CAO) is associated with a high mortality rate and frequent disability in survivors. Even in patients with good clinical recovery there is a high risk of recurrent stroke, mainly in those with impaired cerebral vasomotor reactivity (CVR). Current evidence based therapeutic options for patients with symptomatic CAO include antithrombotic medication and co...

Identifying patients who may benefit from treatment

The MRA-DWI mismatch identifies patients with stroke who are likely to benefit from reperfusion.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this exploratory analysis was to evaluate if a combination of MR angiography (MRA) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) selection criteria can be used to identify patients with acute stroke who are likely to benefit from early reperfusion. METHODS Data from DEFUSE, a study of 74 patients with stroke who received intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in the...

Routine versus ad hoc screening for acute stress following injury: who would benefit and what are the opportunities for prevention

BACKGROUND Screening for acute stress is not part of routine trauma care owing in part to high variability of acute stress symptoms in identifying later onset of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The objective of this pilot study was to assess the sensitivity, specificity, and power to predict onset of PTSD symptoms at 1 and 4 months using a routine screening program in comparison to curren...