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Handoffs have been extensively examined as a potential source of communication failure. Such studies typically focus on how to best share details of care when patient responsibility is transferred from one clinical care team to another.
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In this issue: Apixaban approval; new dental clinical practice guideline; apixaban for VTE; aspirin resistance; tamoxifen treatment; and FDA actions.
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The purpose of this study was to determine which protocols guiding the management of mechanical ventilation are incorporated into practice and to determine if any organizational characteristics of hospitals are associated with the adoption of protocols using evidence-based treatments.
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This multicenter, randomized controlled trial compared daily B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) measurements as a way to guide fluid management with usual care in patients undergoing weaning from mechanical ventilation.
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n their 1985 article The Chronically Critically Ill: To Save or Let Die?, Girard and Raffin created the term chronically critically ill to describe patients admitted to an ICU who survived their acute insults but remained dependent on intensive care therapies.
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Calcium supplementation in women; type 2 diabetes treatments and pancreatitis risk; treating chronic idiopathic urticaria; rivaroxaban and VTE; and FDA actions.
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A trial fibrillation (AF) is a major source of morbidity in patients and cost to the health care community. In the presence of risk factors for thromboembolism, AF is associated with an increased risk of stroke, and this risk is reduced with warfarin.
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The use of thrombolysis for prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is controversial and various guidelines rate it differently. However, since PVT carries a significant mortality risk, more information on proposed therapies would be valuable.