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Let's make this simple: vitamin d deficiency causes EVERYTHING.
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A prodrug of gabapentin has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of restless legs syndrome (RLS).
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Interact included 404 patients with acute intracere-bral hemorrhage (ICH), elevated systolic blood pressure (BP) (150 to 220 mmHg), and capacity to lower BP within 6 hours of onset. CT was performed at baseline and at 24 hours to compare hematoma size.
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It has been speculated that children growing up in an overly clean, suburban environment may experience greater atopy and asthma than children growing up in the inner city or on a farm.
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If you're taking a verbal order from an emergency physician, remember that there is always a potential for miscommunication, warns René Borghese, RN, BAS, unit educator in the ED at Duke University Medical Center. "This is the primary reason we utilize them only when absolutely necessary," she says.
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If your patient is abusing narcotic pain medications, he or she isn't likely to come out and tell you this. However, ED visits involving misuse or abuse of pharmaceuticals nearly doubled during the past five years, according to a new report, totaling about 1.2 million visits in 2009, compared to 627,000 in 2004.
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ED nurses at St. Elizabeth Healthcare Florence (KY) have cared for several healthy patients under age 35 with no history or family history of heart disease, who were having a cardiac event, reports Ben Brooks, RN, BSN.
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Have you just placed a urinary catheter in an ED patient? If so, possible complications include urosepsis, septicemia, trauma to the urethra or bladder, and urethral perforation, warns Mark Goldstein, RN, MSN, EMT-P I/C, clinical nurse specialist at the Emergency Center at Beaumont Hospital in Grosse Pointe, MI.
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