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Tick-borne Illness: Evaluation and Management in the Emergency Department: Part II
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is most common in the southeastern United States despite its name. It presents with headache, fever, myalgias, and a vasculitic rash that may involve the palms and soles. -
Management of Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
Practice guidelines recommend mitral valve repair or replacement for severe ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) that is causing symptoms refractory to best available medical therapy. -
Prognosis of Ventricular Fibrillation in Acute Myocardial Infarction
At this time, ventricular fibrillation (VF) early after acute myocardial infarction (MI) is not an indication alone for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. -
Risk of Early Repolarization ECG Patterns
ECG early repolarization patterns were long thought to be benign normal variants until recent papers purported to show a relationship between these patterns and the risk of malignant arrhythmias and cardiac death. -
Mechanical Chest Compressions in CPR
Effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is partly dependent on the adequacy of manual chest compressions, but they are limited by interruptions and less than ideal conditions such as during transport. -
Clinical Cardiology Alert - Full March 2014 Issue in PDF
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Preliminary review reaps quick benefits for health system IRB
A large health system IRB found that incomplete study submissions were clogging up the IRB review system, resulting in long waits up to three months for approval. -
IRB Advisor - Full April 2014 Issue in PDF
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Examples from CHOP's short consent form
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IRB develops non-research QI templates
Academic and medical research institutions and their IRBs often have to deal with study proposals that fall between research and quality improvement (QI).