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Purpose: To establish staff guidelines for the management of patients in need of a psychiatric assessment that will help ensure the safety of patients and staff in the Emergency Department.
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If youre having trouble retaining and recruiting ED nurses, it may be time to closely examine your violence prevention strategies. The University of Alberta (Canada) Faculty of Nursing surveyed more than 9,000 nurses.
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Due to manufacturing problems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took urokinase (Abbokinase) off the market in December 1998. During inspection of the manufacturing facility in October and November of 1998, urokinase production was found to differ from Good Manufacturing Practice regulations.
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Consistent with the notion that sternitis always accompanies poststernotomy mediastinitis, microbiologic examination of sternal puncture specimens was highly accurate in the diagnosis of deep infection in that setting.
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Neither adding a single dose of ceftriaxone to a 10-day course of doxycycline nor extending the duration of doxycycline therapy to 20 days is better than a straightforward 10-day course of oral doxycycline in the treatment of patients with erythema migrans.
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A study of pleconaril in infants with enterovirus meningitis showed good oral availability, but the limited virus shedding and benign course of enterovirus meningitis in infants precluded identifying virological or clinical benefit.
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A patient receiving the SSRI citalopram developed fatal serotonin syndrome after beginning therapy with linezolid for MRSA infection.
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The first outbreak of human monkeypox infection in North America has resulted from exposure to infected prairie dogs.
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An Oral Agent for Smallpox?; Diagnostic Testing for SARS; Itraconazole Prophylaxis in CGD