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Drugs and Toxins that Produce Delayed Toxicities
Drug overdose is a common chief complaint in the emergency department. Overdose of certain medications or ingestions of toxins should prompt the emergency physician to carefully deliberate on the appropriate next steps and disposition. Furthermore, delayed toxicity may be under-recognized, and delayed management can lead to life-threatening complications, such as arrhythmias and seizures. Managing the poisoned patient can be challenging because clinical effects often are difficult to predict in circumstances that produce toxicity.
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Physicians Need Better Information, Training in Miscarriage Management
Many women — maybe even most pregnant patients with miscarriage complications — are not offered a full range of options of the best evidence-based miscarriage management.
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Social Issues Are a Big Challenge in Adolescent Contraceptive Access
A decade of failed improvements has shown that money needs to be focused less on a game changer and more on using strategies that work, including those that address social norms.
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Contraceptive Implant Can Lead to Weight Gain, But It Is Not Medically Concerning
Clinicians providing contraceptive counseling should be aware of recent research showing that young people can experience weight gain when using hormonal implants, when compared with young people using some other types of contraceptives.
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California’s Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Show Promise
When California was faced with unacceptably high rates of maternal deaths and disparities among minority patients, the state formed a collaborative to tackle this problem and find solutions.
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How Are Maternal Deaths Counted and Investigated?
Determining a city, state, or country’s maternal mortality rate is challenging and can be a controversial process. It depends on the time frame measured, whether maternal deaths are considered only if there are biomedical causes, or when there are factors related to pregnancy, such as suicides and homicides that would have not occurred if the person had not had a pregnancy.
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Some States Upend Maternal Mortality Committees and Investigations
Maternal mortality review committees are facing changes that could affect how maternal deaths are investigated and reported. This could lead to fewer initiatives to lower maternal mortality and morbidity rates and also mask could increases in abortion-ban states.
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Mechanical Thrombectomy for Stroke
Stroke remains a global health crisis, affecting up to one in five individuals in high-income countries and nearly one in two individuals in low-income regions, making it the second leading cause of death worldwide. Advances in endovascular thrombectomy, including mechanical thrombectomy (MT), have revolutionized the management of acute ischemic stroke, offering significant reductions in patient disability and mortality rates.
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Lawsuit Claims Hospital Kept Patient Alive to Boost Metrics
A New Jersey hospital and a medical team are facing a medical malpractice lawsuit from the family of a man who says they kept the brain-damaged patient alive for a year to boost the hospital’s metric on survival after heart transplant.
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Profits Before Patients, Betrayal of Trust
The facts of the medical care that supposedly led to a New Jersey patient named Darryl Young’s brain damage and death are still to be determined, but the hospital’s behavior after the transplant was “outrageous.”