Hospital 'code blue' deadlier at night
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Many hospitals call it "code blue," a signal given over the intercom when a patient's heart has stopped. When code blue works well, a team speeds to the bedside and revives the patient. The graveyard shift is the worst time to call code blue, a new study finds. Patients who go into cardiac arrest while in the hospital are more likely to die if it happens after 11 p.m., when staffing may be lower or patients watched less closely.
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Hospital A&E departments are flooded with 1m boozers at weekends each year, a study says.
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In nearly a third of cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, the staff takes too long to respond, a study found.
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In nearly a third of cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, the staff takes too long to respond, a study finds.
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Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep; medicine dictates long hours without it.
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People who have a cardiac arrest in the hospital at night or on the weekend are far less likely to survive than those who suffer one during the day, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Americans have a harder time than residents of several other countries getting after-hours appointments with a nurse or primary care physician without going to an emergency room, a study released yesterday found.
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Patients are waiting longer for care in the nation's emergency rooms, a potentially deadly result of the shrinking number of emergency departments and rising demand for emergency services, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
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ATLANTA Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is telling more than 500 patients they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease though the actual risk is &quot;remote.
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For no apparent reason, people in New York are turning blue and dying. Sounds like a job for Dr. Stephen Connor and his mobile team from the National Institutes of Health
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PORTLAND, Maine - Whether its blue or spotted or stripped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center...
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Bleary-eyed shift workers have had their suspicions confirmed. A new study has found working as many as one-in-four night-shift workers develop sleep disorders.
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There are worrying contrasts between the high standards of private mental hospital wards and the Victorian realities of the public sector, a report found today.
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ATLANTA -- Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is telling more than 500 patients they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease, although the actual risk is &quot;remote.
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'
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An inquest into the death of nurse finds shortcomings in standards of care expected in a major teaching hospital.
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NEW YORK  - Deaths related to medication  errors appear to rise sharply during the first few days of each  month, suggesting that hectic pharmacies may be at least partly  to blame, according to researchers.