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Hospital switching to new bracelets: Patient ID bands are color- coded for safety

23 hours ago ago from Jewelry Blog Spot

Starting Friday, hospital patients will get new identification bracelets that are meant to increase safety while reducing the number of information bands they need to wear. Owensboro Medical Health System will switch to the plastic bracelets with a small pouch that can contain colored stickers alerting nurses or doctors of allergies or other conditions. The Identi-Match III also will contain a blue, hard-plastic tag with raised ...

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Change Your Fate: Burn Palm Lines!

15 hours ago ago from zone otaku

How are the palm lines on your hand like? Is it good or bad? For me people say that I will have a long life, etc. I can't remember the rest, but I do remember another one about having a good husband or something o.o TV Tokyo’s “Ariehen Sekai” introduces a plastic surgeon in South Korea who uses a laser to alter the palm lines of patients who think their hands are unlucky: This is done so as to change your luck in ...

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178,000 liters of blood mobilized in 2009

10 hours ago ago from Bao Viet Nam

Around 178,000 liters of blood were collected in Vietnam this year for patients needing transfusions, with two thirds from volunteer donors. Volunteers donate blood in Hanoi (Photo: Anninhthudo Newspaper) The National Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation said, however, that the supply met just 40 percent of demand. Tran Ngoc Tang, chairman of the Vietnam Red Cross Association, said that ...

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Hospital overcrowding jeopardizes lives

10 hours ago ago from Bao Viet Nam

Vietnamese citizens say they are weary of long line-ups and treatment delays at the country’s hospitals. In many healthcare centers, patients are forced to share a bed with two or three other people and face postponement of urgently needed care. Hospital managers say that overcrowded medical clinics puts patients at risk, but feel they are helpless to change the situation. Parents and their children resort to ...

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CT Scan

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There are many reasons why a doctor could suggest you get a CT scan. Imaging technology can help doctors diagnose bone tumors or fractures, identify where a tumor or blood clot is located, judge where to go in for surgery or radiation therapy, monitor heart disease damage or detect internal injuries. Unlike an MRI scan, anyone can have a CT for their medical problem, even if they have pacemakers or internal cardioverter defibrillators. The ...

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