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Palliative Care Principles for Emergency Providers
Palliative care can be accessed at any stage of serious illness, using a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals looking at aspects of a patient’s care including input from family at every level. The team works collaboratively with the primary medical team to maximize symptom control, improve quality of life, and support patients and families.
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Is Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis “Perfect” for the Treatment of PE?
Systemic thrombolysis is associated with major bleeding complications and hemorrhagic stroke, which mitigates its overall benefit.
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Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing Had No Effect on the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Infections
In a randomized, crossover study of 9,340 patients, daily chlorhexidine bathing did not reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infections, Clostridium difficile, or catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
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Right Heart Protective Ventilation Strategies
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: Right ventricle performance is vulnerable to the effects of both pulmonary disease and positive pressure ventilation.
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Digoxin May Increase Mortality in AF Patients
Digoxin may increase mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure, according to the new a meta-analysis.
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“It’s the ethics police!” Put a stop to outdated perceptions of clinical ethics consults
There is a pervasive misconception that our primary focus is to find what is ethically inappropriate, and assign blame or fault,” says Adam Pena, MA, an instructor at Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy in Houston.
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Reality check needed: Many unaware of limitations of life-sustaining treatments
Family members of patients generally overestimate the potential benefit of life-sustaining treatments in the ICU, according to Paul Hutchison, MD, MA, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.
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Residents struggle with talking about resuscitation preferences, even with training
Training improved resident-led code status discussions in some ways but not others, according to a recent study.
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NIOSH, OSHA create respiratory protection tools
The Joint Commission develops a monograph on respiratory protection. -
Clinical Briefs
This article covers the following topics: the saga of homocysteine and vasculopathy; roflumilast for acute exacerbations in COPD; and treatment of OSA reduces risk of repeat revascularization after PCI.