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Nurse-led Asthma Care Improves Control in Children
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In Short: A study shows nurse-led protocolled care significantly improves asthma control in children aged 6-12 years in primary care settings.
In primary care settings, nurse-led protocolled care has significantly improved asthma control in children aged 6-12 years, according to a recent study.
The study highlights the effectiveness of structured nurse-led interventions in managing asthma, a condition that affects many children and can be challenging to control.
However, the study was underpowered for secondary outcomes, and asthma diagnoses were not confirmed by spirometry, a common diagnostic tool.
Despite these limitations, the findings underscore the potential of nurse-led care in enhancing asthma management and patient outcomes.
The mistrial leaves the case unresolved, allowing prosecutors to potentially retry Clancy for the murders.
What's confirmed
- A judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three young children.
What's still developing
- Trump previously said Clancy would have to 'pay the price' for killing her three children Lindsay Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has said he's hoping for Donald Trump to pardon her, after her trial ended in a mistrial last week.
- The prosecution, however, argued the former labour and delivery nurse acted 'intentionally, rationally and swiftly'.
- As the end of her maternity leave nears, Lindsay, who works as a labour and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, starts to experience anxiety about returning to work.
- Lindsay’s husband Patrick tells police she is having suicidal thoughts and thoughts of harming their children, according to his testimony in court.
- Clancy, 36, killed her three children, Callan, eight months, Cora, five, and Dawson, three, on 24 January 2023, but denies murder, with her defence arguing she can't be held criminally responsible for their deaths as she was allegedly suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.
- “In general, deciding whether to grant a mistrial is more art than science,” said Daniel Medwed, university distinguished professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case said Friday that he will declare a mistrial, but gave the defense an hour to request a stay of the planned decision from a higher court, after the defense appeared to blame a lone juror for impeding the acquittal of the nurse and mother who strangled her three children in Jan. 2023.
- LONDON – An appeals court judge issued a scathing report Tuesday that found dysfunctional management and a “complete failure” to protect babies at the British hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborns.
- The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of Chester Hospital, in northwestern England, could have saved some infants if staff had acted sooner when children began collapsing, Justice Kathryn Thirlwall said.