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  2. Video game rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    Video game rehabilitation is a process of using common video game consoles and methodology to target and improve physical and mental weaknesses through therapeutic processes. Video games are becoming an integral part of occupational therapy practice in acute, rehabilitation, and community settings. [ 1 ]

  3. Home hemodialysis - Wikipedia

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    Home hemodialysis (HHD) is the provision of hemodialysis to purify the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally, in their own home. One advantage to doing dialysis at home is that it can be done more frequently and slowly, which reduces the "washed out" feeling and other symptoms caused by rapid ultrafiltration, and it can often be done at night, while the person is sleeping.

  4. Virtual reality therapy - Wikipedia

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    Virtual reality therapy (VRT) was pioneered and originally termed by Max North documented by the first known publication (Virtual Environment and Psychological Disorders, Max M. North, and Sarah M. North, Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture, 2,4, July 1994), his doctoral VRT dissertation completion in 1995 (began in 1992), and followed with the first known published VRT book in 1996 (Virtual ...

  5. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    A centerpiece of the treatment was a confrontational form of group therapy that became known as the Game. The Game was a primitive court-like spectacle where addicts sat in a circle and leveled indictments against their peers, screaming at each other in the hope of a breakthrough.

  6. New Study Published in Current Problems in Cardiology ...

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    Significant Reduction in Heart Failure Readmissions: The study found a statistically significant reduction in rehospitalization rates for heart failure at 60 days from the initiation of ultrafiltration therapy compared to the pre-ultrafiltration period (16.7% vs. 26.7%, p=0.013). The total number of ADHF readmissions in the 30 days following ...

  7. Hemofiltration - Wikipedia

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    Hemofiltration is sometimes used in combination with hemodialysis, when it is termed hemodiafiltration. Blood is pumped through the blood compartment of a high flux dialyzer, and a high rate of ultrafiltration is used, so there is a high rate of movement of water and solutes from blood to dialysate that must be replaced by substitution fluid that is infused directly into the blood line.

  8. Nuwellis Welcomes University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family ...

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    MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nuwellis, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUWE), a medical technology company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with fluid overload, is pleased to announce that University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, has adopted the Aquadex SmartFlow ® system to treat pediatric patients suffering from fluid overload due ...

  9. Aquapheresis - Wikipedia

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    Anti-coagulation therapy is often used with aquapheresis to prevent blood from clotting the ultrafiltration filter. Patients must discontinue any anticoagulant medications before starting aquapheresis so they can be placed on intravenous heparin therapy. Once the Heparin therapy is initiated, the patient's PTT (partial thromboplastin time ...