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Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has taken the unusual step of directly appealing to health care workers to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza.
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To prepare for an influenza pandemic, you've counted your ventilators and calculated your patient surge, sought options to add bed space, and assessed the capacity of the emergency department. But have you estimated how many of your employees will show up for work?
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Workers' compensation fee schedules do not properly recognize and reimburse physicians who restore injured workers to optimal function and promote rapid return to work, says a new position statement from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
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In this issue: FDA warnings for existing drugs dominate pharmaceutical news this month.
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Previous work demonstrates that selective gut decontamination decreases the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), but the practice has been limited by concerns about promoting antibiotic resistance.
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De Jong and colleagues in The Netherlands conducted a prospective, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo-controlled, parallel-group clinical study of intravenous vs oral corticosteroids in the treatment of patients hospitalized because of an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Multiple recent studies have demonstrated that red blood cell (RBC) transfusion may be deleterious to critically ill patients, as it has been found to be associated with increased mortality following coronary artery bypass surgery, increased rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and worse outcomes in patients with burn injury and trauma.