Automated EHR alerts for hospitalized patients alerted clinicians when acute kidney injury developed, triggered stoppage of potentially exacerbating medications, and sometimes improved clinical outcomes.
Low chloride, balanced-crystalloid IV fluid led to significantly fewer delayed graft function events compared with saline in a multicenter trial of patients getting a deceased-donor kidney transplant.
May 1, 2021
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In this Feb. 5, 2001 file photo, a mule deer buck stands among a herd of grazing deer at their wintering grounds in Paradise Valley south of Livingston, Mont.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Scientists have developed a new way to test live animals for chronic wasting disease that holds promise for one day detecting the illness in the wild.
“We need to do more in the form of field testing to verify its utility,” said Byron Caughey, chief of the TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Hamilton.
BRETT FRENCH
In this 2012 photo a whitetail doe pauses for a moment while walking through the first snow of the winter near Smith Lake in Kila, Mont. Scientists have developed a new way to test live animals for chronic wasting disease, a fatal affliction that showed up in Montana in 2017. (AP photo)
BILLINGS, Mont. Scientists have developed a new way to test live animals for chronic wasting disease that holds promise for one day detecting the illness in the wild.
“We need to do more in the form of field testing to verify its utility,” said Byron Caughey, chief of the TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Hamilton.