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Diastolic Stress Testing Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Evaluation of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Adding echocardiographic assessment of diastolic function during exercise improves the accuracy of current algorithms for evaluating suspected heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in the Elderly
Analysis of the ability of echo Doppler measures of diastolic function to predict heart failure and death in community subjects > 65 years of age was improved by applying age-adjusted normal values for e’, which are considerably lower than those recommended in the American Society of Echocardiography guidelines.
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Bundle: Studying How Improved Compliance Might Affect Outcomes
Improved compliance with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines bundle was associated with a non-statistically significant decrease in the in-hospital mortality of severe sepsis patients.
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The ABCs of In-hospital Cardiac Arrest
In this large, propensity-matched cohort study of patients who experienced an in-hospital cardiac arrest, patients who underwent endotracheal intubation had worse survival to hospital discharge than patients who were not intubated.
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The Clinical Utility of Measuring Dead Space Ventilation in Critical Illness
Here are some of the technologic and physiologic aspects of capnography as they relate to dead space ventilation and their application in the management of critically ill patients.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: soothing dementia with music; the gastrointestinal tract and cardiology; NSAIDs might pose cardiovascular risks.
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Deflazacort Tablets and Suspension (Emflaza)
Deflazacort is indicated for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in patients ≥ 5 years of age.
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Antibiotic Treatment in Community-acquired Pneumonia
In patients with newly diagnosed community-acquired pneumonia, basing the duration of antibiotic treatment on clinical stability criteria led to a significant reduction in duration of antibiotic treatment without an increased risk of adverse outcomes.
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Helping Disabled Patients Through Physical Activity
Recent trial demonstrated that a structured physical activity intervention reduces reported severe mobility disability and difficulty on mobility tasks, but not all disability in older adults who experience functional limitations.
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Benefit of Bariatric Surgery for Obesity and Diabetes Maintained After Five Years
It seems that for an individual patient, clinicians now can discuss the pros and cons of bariatric surgery compared with aggressive medical management with a fair bit of certainty about expected outcomes.