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Resuscitation in the pregnant patient is an uncommon occurrence, estimated at 1 in 30,000 deliveries, yet it is unique in its potential to save not one, but two lives.
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Flandreau and colleagues at the Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon, France, report their experience with patients with chronic neuromuscular disease (CNMD) admitted to their 15-bed medical ICU because of acute respiratory failure (ARF).
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Cardoso and colleagues at University Hospital in Londrina, Brazil, prospectively studied all patients who were admitted to their 17-bed, closed, general adult ICU during a 12-month period.
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Communicating with family members in a manner that ensures satisfaction with the information received, assists in reducing distress, and supports decision making is challenging.
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In this issue: Anticholinergic drugs for COPD; pioglitazone for diabetes prevention; insulin degludec in Phase 3 trials; and FDA Actions.
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Although previous studies have suggested that hypocalcemia, a common problem in critical illness, is associated with increased mortality in ICU patients, and correction of hypocalcemia has been advocated to prevent neurologic and cardiovascular complications, the literature is still unclear as to the precise relationship between abnormal calcium levels both hypo- and hypercalcemia and ICU outcomes.
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Chronically critically ill patients are projected to increase in number over the next 10 years.
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In a prior study, investigators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center linked intraoperative contamination of patients' IV stopcocks with an increase in patient mortality.
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A recent examination of the Medicare database illustrates that survival rates after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remained unchanged from 1992 to 2005.