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There continues to be a huge discrepancy between the number of individuals on the national waiting list for vital organ transplant and the number of donor organs available.
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Infection prevention is a priority area of focus for critical care units worldwide.
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In this issue: Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions.
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In an attempt to reproduce the situation in which a covering physician is called urgently to a patient's bedside because of a ventilator-related problem, this laboratory study sought to determine how readily intensivists could operate new-generation ICU mechanical ventilators with which they were not personally familiar.
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This large-scale clinical trial of exogenous surfactant administration in adult patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) used internationally accepted diagnostic criteria and the ARDS Net lung-protective ventilation protocol in all patients.
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Generally, families of critical care patients are not actively involved in patient care in a consistent or meaningful way.
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If you assume that your workforce has better than average health statistics due to programs for nutrition, fitness, and smoking cessation, you may be sadly mistaken. On the other hand, you may have far fewer obese employees than the national average.
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine or turn on the news and you're likely to hear somebody talking about this country's obesity epidemic.
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