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When Clinicians Ask Urgent Ethical Questions, Time Is of the Essence
When busy clinicians ask for ethics help, they need assistance now, not weeks later. Ethics’ response should be just as timely as any medical or surgical subspecialty service. When clinicians receive a quick, helpful response from ethics, word spreads quickly in healthcare organizations.
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PEACE Rounds Promote Better Communication in Neonatal ICU
Conflicts can happen between nurses and physicians, families and physicians, and social workers and families. Weekly Patient Experience and Communication Excellence (PEACE) rounds, implemented in 2016 in the pediatric intensive care unit at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, has ameliorated healthcare providers’ moral distress and shortened length of stay for some patients.
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Students Shadow Chaplains, Connect with Patients
Medical students led the creation of a grassroots ethics program that includes lunch-and-learn sessions, ethics presentations, faculty-student mentorship sessions, student ethics committee discussions, and an ethics capstone scholarly project. Students learn to recognize ethical issues in everyday medical decisions as they transition to providing direct patient care on clinical wards.
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Demand for Ethics Education Surges at Medical Schools
Experts argue ethics education should be a lifelong process, not a one-time course in medical school.
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Decitabine and Cedazuridine Tablets (Inqovi)
Inqovi should be prescribed to treat adults with myelodysplastic syndromes.
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Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Heart Failure
A comprehensive cardiorespiratory study of stable systolic heart failure patients showed Cheyne-Stokes breathing in the awake, upright position is related to hypercapnia and is independently associated with a higher risk of cardiac death.
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Risks of Hookah Smoking
An average hookah contains as much tobacco as 20 filtered cigarettes. The nicotine hit from a hookah is every bit as real and as addictive as smoking cigarettes. The temperature of the smoke when heated electronically in newer hookahs, rather than by older charcoal versions, may be cidal to lung cells.
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Stroke Risk: COVID-19 vs. Influenza
During the early surge in COVID-19 infections in New York City, many neurologists observed an unusual frequency of ischemic stroke. Researchers investigated further. Read on to learn what they discovered.
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The Relationship Among Step Count, Step Intensity, and Mortality in Adults
Investigators found an association between higher number of steps taken daily and lower all-cause mortality, lower mortality from cardiovascular disease, and lower mortality from cancer, but no association between intensity of steps and mortality in any of those areas.
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A Combination of Both SIRS and SOFA Scores Enhances Recognition of Sepsis in the Emergency Department
Compared with either score alone, using both SIRS and SOFA scores led to earlier and more complete recognition of sepsis in patients presenting to the emergency department.