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In a prospective study of the actual oral nutritional intake of patients with respiratory failure in the first week following extubation, average intake failed to exceed 50% of daily requirements on all seven days.
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The quiet of your slow night shift is suddenly broken when three young adults arrive by local ambulance. All three were unrestrained victims in a single-vehicle rollover. Amid the airways, lines, tubes, radiographs, and calls to the regional trauma center, you notice that blood continues to drip from orifices and open wounds.
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Dronedarone is an antiarrhythmic drug with structural and electrophysiologic similarities to amiodarone that was released in 2009. Dronedarone's structure includes a benzofuranyl ring but, unlike amiodarone, the ring is not iodinated.
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Little is known about the long-term prognosis of the no-reflow phenomenon after percutaneous intervention (PCI) for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
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The use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in all acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients is controversial.
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The optimal timing of cardiac catheterization for patients suffering non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (nonSTEMI) remains a subject of debate.
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New reports about proton pump inhibitors and the effects of gastric suppression, pioglitazone vs vitamin E for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, metformin and vitamin B12 deficiency, and FDA Actions