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Grange still thefavourite to keepPENFOLD’S Grange wasnamed the most collected winein Australia yesterday after aninventory of the three millionbottles held by Australia’sbiggest wine storage provider.
Dean Taylor, the founder ofWine Ark, which has 11 storage facilitiesacross the country, said the $250 millionworth of wine in its safekeeping includedmore than 25,000 bottles of Grange. Amongthe stash is a 1951 bottle of Penfold’s Bin 1Grange Shiraz valued at about $50,000. AAP
HERALD NEWS
Sedative trial successInjuries fromviolent patientsslashedBy KYLIE WILLIAMSHealth Reporter
THE Calvary Mater Hospitalhas successfully trialled a newdrug to sedate violent emerg-ency department patients,halving the number of injuriesto medical staff.
The new protocol could alsobe rolled out in other NSWhospitals and paramedics mayeventually be able to use thedrug to sedate violent patients.
Clinical nurse researchspecialist Leonie Calver said
the Mater’s emergency depart-ment had significantly highernumbers of violent attacks onstaff, 5.5 per 1000 patients,compared with the Australianhospital average, 3.2 per 1000,because it was the Hunter’stoxicology centre and hadmore patients under the influ-ence of drugs or alcohol.
She said that in the 12-monthtrial, which finished last month,
staff used an antipsychotic drugcalled droperidol instead of thepreviously used benzodia-zepine drug, midazolam, tosedate violent patients.
The new drug halved thenumber of injuries staffreceived from violent patients.
‘‘In the 12 months previouswe had double the amount ofstaff injuries,’’ she said.
Ms Calver said the previous
drug was given intravenouslyand patients often had to bestrapped down in order to finda vein.
The new drug was injectedinto muscles, making itquicker and easier for staff toadminister. It also requiredfewer doses for the patient,which made it safer.
The reduced administrationtime protected other patients
as well as staff, Ms Calver said.‘‘It reduces the time the
patient is rampaging aroundthe hospital,’’ she said.
She said St Vincents Hos-pital in Sydney had alreadyexpressed interest in usingdroperidol and it could berolled out across NSW hos-pitals, which currently all usedifferent drugs to control viol-ent patients.
Ms Calver said she hopedparamedics would eventuallybe able to use the drug onviolent patients.
SAVING LIVES: University of Newcastleresearcher Dr Abul Hasnat Milton.
Education planfor snake bitesBANGLADESH isto educate snakecharmers on how tohelp bite victimsafter a survey found6000 villagers diedeach year fromsnake attacks,officials said.
The study by theGovernment andthe University ofNewcastle foundthe deaths wereabout one in 100 ofthose bitten.
‘‘Out of the totalsnakebite cases, atleast 6041 die everyyear as they don’tget treatment, or goto the doctor whenit’s too late,’’ DrAbul Hasnat Milton,lead researcher atthe university, said.
‘‘The situation isvery severe. Sna-kebite deaths inBangladesh are byfar the largest inthe continent andpossibly the high-est in the world.’’
The deaths occuras almost all sna-kebite victims, whoare often house-wives as snakes area t t r a c t e d t okitchens for food,seek treatmentfrom gypsy snakecharmers, Pro-fessor Milton said.
Snake charmerswould be told vic-tims of cobra andkrait bites neededprofessional medi-cal care immedi-ately. AFP
Hotel failstosell
MAITLAND’S Bel-more Hotel has beenpassed in at auction inSydney but a sale ishopeful by the end ofthe week.
Burgess Rawsonagent Stephen Lov-ison said severalSydney-based partieshad shown strongi n t e r e s t i n t h erecently renovatedproperty.
The freehold of thehotel was put on themarket last month,three months after anew 30-year lease wassigned.