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ECG Review: Shifting Sites
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ECG Review: DKA and Acute MI?
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ECG Review: A Clue in the Pause
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Journal Reviews: Emergency contraception provision - A survey of emergency department practitioners; Bedside echocardiography by emergency physicians
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Preventing Inappropriate ICD Shocks
This study, the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Reduce Inappropriate Therapy (MADIT-RIT), was designed to test the hypothesis that programming implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapies with higher detection rates or delayed detection before initiation of therapy would decrease inappropriate shocks in ICD patients. -
Pharmacology Watch: Zolpidem and Risk of Falls in Hospitalized Patients
Zolpidem and risk of falls; AVR and anticoagulation; statins in cancer patients; and FDA actions. -
CABG Better in Elderly, PCI Better in Young?
As our population ages and outcomes from revascularization also improve, more elderly patients are being referred for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). -
Risk of Angioedema with Drug Therapy
Angioedema is an infrequent, but serious, adverse event from drug therapy. Drugs that affect the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system have been linked to angioedema, but the relative frequency of this complication with these drugs is poorly understood. -
Risk of Bleeding with Warfarin Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation
This paper details the result of a population-based cohort study of all Ontario, Canada, residents older than 66 years of age who began warfarin therapy for atrial fibrillation over an 11-year period.