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Passive leg raising (PLR), a rapidly reversible maneuver that simulates rapid volume expansion by putting several hundred milliliters of fluid back into the circulation, has been shown to predict fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients.
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With increased emphasis on evidence-based medicine during the last dozen years has come the implicit assumption that the availability of more and better evidence on how disease should be diagnosed and managed will lead to better patient care.
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Findings from a new study identify women at higher risk of significant bone loss on injectable birth control.
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Results from new research of a theory-based, abstinence-only intervention appear to be associated with a lower rate of sexual involvement among African American sixth- and seventh-graders.
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A woman presented at two hospital emergency departments (ED) complaining of a number of respiratory symptoms. She was not admitted and was sent home with a prescription.
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A girl was admitted to a psychiatric facility after her parents found evidence of the girl having suicidal thoughts. The parents requested in writing that the hospital not send any records of the admission to the girl's school.
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With the ongoing debate over health care reform, the idea of malpractice tort reform has gotten short shrift, but some analysts are saying the time is right to address out-of-control malpractice risks by instituting a mandatory physician review panel. Others say no, that such a system would inevitably be biased in favor of the health care defendants.
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For three weeks, lawyers representing Kent Hospital in Rhode Island were in Kent County Superior Court in Warwick, RI, battling with the attorneys representing the family of actor James Woods.