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Analysis Shows Decline in Funding for Cardiac Arrest Research
Even though it’s a leading cause of death in the United States, researchers investigating cardiac arrest receive a smaller portion of the federal funding pie.
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Does Dexmedetomidine Improve Patient Outcomes in Sepsis?
In patients with sepsis requiring mechanical ventilation, use of dexmedetomidine compared with no dexmedetomidine did not result in an improvement in 28-day mortality or ventilator-free days.
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Resilience in the ICU: A Valuable Asset for Families
Interventions that teach resilience may improve family members’ experiences in the ICU.
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Management of Pulmonary Embolism in the ICU
Small, low-risk pulmonary embolism can be treated as an outpatient procedure or with heparin infusion alone, but higher-risk pulmonary embolism cases are managed properly in an ICU. With the introduction of newer modalities of treatment, appropriate risk stratification and the choice of treatment are increasingly complex.
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Going Wireless: Combining the Subcutaneous ICD With a Leadless Pacemaker
A system incorporating an entirely subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator that can command a novel leadless anti-tachycardia pacemaker unidirectionally showed success and promise in an early, short-term animal trial.
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Alcohol Septal Ablation in Younger HCM Patients: Should We Relax Guidelines?
Current guidelines recommend surgical myectomy over septal ablation for younger hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients. A new study bridges part of the data gap, showing safety and efficacy of the procedure in young patients.
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Early Diuretic Administration Associated With Improved Survival in Acute Heart Failure Patients
Among patients presenting to the ED with acute heart failure, those who received the first dose of intravenous furosemide within 60 minutes of arrival demonstrated lower in-hospital mortality compared to those receiving the first dose after 60 minutes.
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Prevention of Myocardial Infarction in Atrial Fibrillation Patients
A large observational study showed that the primary prevention of myocardial infarction and stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation is better with vitamin K antagonists alone as compared to aspirin alone and dual therapy.
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Requiem for Beta-blockers Post-Myocardial Infarction?
A propensity score analysis of all hospital survivors of acute myocardial infarction in the United Kingdom from 2007-2013 showed that one-year survival in hospital patients without heart failure or left ventricular dysfunction treated with beta-blockers did not differ from survival in those patients not so treated.
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Couple Unsuccessful on Failure-to-Diagnose Claim
This case illustrates the importance of developing a firm understanding of expert witness qualification. Expert witness testimony is very frequently pivotal in a case.