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Full September 2003 Issue in PDF
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Anticancer Potential of Turmeric
Coker Ross C. Anticancer potential of turmeric. Altern Med Alert 2003;6(9):104-108. -
Full September 2003 Issue in PDF
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Critical Care Plus: Billing and Documenting Critical Care
When does critical care become just another emergency department (ED) visit? When you fail to document it properly. You may do all the right things and have a patient in crisis, but if the paperwork isnt done properly, you dont get paid for your efforts. -
Critical Care Plus: Who Gets What in Critical Care? Task Force Tackles Care Rationing
Two severely ill patients in the emergency department of your hospital need admission to the ICU, but only one bed is available. Who gets admitted first? Another critical care patient is severely ill, with several coexisting conditions. -
Aerosol Delivery During Mechanical Ventilation
Inhaled drugs are commonly used during mechanical ventilation. The physiologic effects of bronchodilators delivered by nebulizer or pressurized metered dose inhaler (pMDI) are virtually equivalent. -
Lower Than Expected In-Hospital Mortality of COPD Exacerbations
In this study of a large nationwide database, mortality during hospitalization for acute exacerbation of COPD was 2.5%, which is substantially lower than that reported in previous studies. -
‘Normal’ Hemoglobin Decline in ICU Patients
In a cohort of 91 ICU patients without known causes for hemoglobin decline other than blood draws and critical illness, serum hemoglobin levels declined by an average of 0.52 g/dL/d. The decline was more rapid during the first 3 days in the ICU and among patients who were septic. -
Pharmacology Watch: Study Shows Oral IIb/IIIa Receptors Increase Mortality
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement