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  • Lift teams boost the bottom line

    The verdict is in on lift teams at Tampa (FL) General Hospital: They save money and backs. They win kudos from nurses. Theyre here to stay.
  • MedPAC approves draft LTCH recommendations

    If your hospital is not classified as a long-term care hospital (LTCH), you may not be paying attention to the questions being asked by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and some politicians about the need for this level of care. But rehab advocates say you should, because the debate over long-term care ties in with the 75% rule.
  • Calcium and Magnesium for Premenstrual Syndrome

    Balk JL. Calcium and magnesium for prementrual syndrome. Altern Ther Women's Health 2004;6(5):33-36.
  • News Briefs

    Fentanyl (Duragesic) recall is expanded; Most hospital pharmacists monitor medication therapy; Study: Early treatment with thrombolytic t-PA for stroke; Sponsors announced for Medicare drug discount card.
  • Hospital develops unit-based pharmacist program

    Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) may be one way to curb medication errors. The reality, however, is that most health care centers have not implemented such a program and may never will. CPOE systems are expensive, and some professionals fear the technology will be outdated during the time it takes to install the system and teach staff to use it.
  • Statin research calls current guidelines into question

    New research is challenging the current guidelines of how to treat atherosclerotic coronary disease with statin drugs. Current guidelines by the National Cholesterol Education Program have set a therapy target of 100 mg/dL. Two recent head-to-head trials, however, suggest that intensive statin therapy may be of greater benefit.
  • Special Feature: Electrocardiographic Electrode Misconnection

    The adage the best chest x-ray is an old chest x-ray can be extended to the world of electrocardiography. With the myriad and subtle changes that may occur on the 12-lead surface electrocardiogram, at times the emergency physicians best ally is an old tracing for comparison.
  • Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism in the ED: What’s Tops in the Toolbox?

    The authors analyzed 965 consecutive patients presenting to any of three European emergency departments between October 2000 and June 2002 with complaints suggestive of pulmonary embolism (PE)sudden or worsening dyspnea, chest pain without another etiology, or syncope.
  • Abdominal CT in Blunt Trauma: Hold the Contrast?

    A number of studies have questioned the dogma of oral contrast administration. Only one, however, was prospective: Staffords study published in 1999 cast doubt on whether oral contrast added any significant data to the evaluation of stable patients. Now, a prospective, non-randomized, cohort study from Salt Lake City with 500 consecutive Trauma I (their highest designation) patients has omitted oral contrast from the routine trauma abdominal CT scan.
  • New drug initiatives, task force report announced

    The federal government announced several new initiatives recently regarding prescription drugs, as well as the final report from the Counterfeit Drug Task Force.