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Telecarers improve treatment, compliance in older hip fracture patients
Telecarers are beneficial in the monitoring of older hip fracture patients who are undergoing osteoporosis treatment, suggests a Singapore study. However, patient or family rejection and physician failure to prescribe persist as limitations of treatment.
Severe COVID patients 16 times more likely to experience V-tach
Patients with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation are 16 times more likely to develop ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) within 6 months following discharge compared with matched controls without severe infection in a Swedish case-control study presented at EHRA 2023.
Vonoprazan-amoxicillin combo on par with B-quadruple therapy for H. pylori infection
Ten-day treatment with vonoprazan 20 mg twice/day plus amoxicillin 750 mg four times/day (VHA-dual) as a first-line therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection results in satisfactory eradication rate of >90 percent, fewer adverse events (AEs), and similar adherence when compared with bismuth quadruple therapy (B-quadruple), results of a study have shown.
