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Recent Cases Add to Complexity of Treatment Withdrawal Decision-Making
Many ethics consults involve conflicts over withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. If patients’ families are aware of recent cases demonstrating recovery potential in patients with traumatic brain injury who were thought to have a low chance of survival, it can make the decision-making process even more challenging.
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Mental Health Issues Are Coming Up During Ethics Consults
Mental health issues are coming up more frequently during ethics consults, according to ethicists interviewed by Medical Ethics Advisor.
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Many Ethics Committees Lack Formal Process for Education, Orientation
One of the primary functions of an ethics committee is education — for members, for clinicians, and for patients and their family members. Yet most ethics committees have no formal orientation process, and many have no ongoing ethics education process, according to a recent survey of hospital leaders at AdventHealth.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Abandoning Universal COVID Admission Screening; Does Obesity Affect HIV Drug Levels? Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables!
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Out of Africa Again? A New Version of Mpox
A novel mpox clade has emerged in Africa and has the potential for a global epidemic.
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Effectiveness and Safety of Transitioning to Oral Antibiotics in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Uncomplicated Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection
In a retrospective observational study, transitioning to oral antibiotics was demonstrated to be as effective and safer in solid organ transplant recipients with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia as compared with completion of therapy with intravenous antibiotics.
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Shigella on the Rise
The prevalence of Shigella resistant to azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and ampicillin is increasing.
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Delusional Infestation
Delusional infestation, previously known as delusional parasitosis, is a condition with which patients believe that their bodies are infested with abnormal living organisms or non-living substances. Many patients can recover with a good therapeutic clinician-patient relationship and, usually, the use of risperidone, aripiprazole, or olanzapine.
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Mortality in Sepsis Patients Treated with Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs. Cefepime
A retrospective cohort study that included more than 7,000 patients with sepsis and no clear indication for anti-anaerobic coverage found receipt of piperacillin-tazobactam was associated with higher mortality and increased duration of organ dysfunction compared to cefepime.
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The Cath was “Clean!”
The featured electrocardiogram was obtained following successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Although echo done soon after showed akinesis of the anterior wall, no significant coronary narrowing was seen on cardiac catheterization. Can you explain? What is this phenomenon called?