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In this study, the authors sought to elicit perceptions of the impact of a rapid response team (RRT) by interviewing care providers.
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Fagan and colleagues at Denver Health Medical Center examined electronic data collected on all adult patients who generated a medical surgical acute-care room charge during a recent 6-month period and remained on the ward for at least 24 hours.
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This study conducted in five ICUs at two academic hospitals in San Francisco sought to describe how comfort care is presented to surrogates and if physicians beliefs on whether life support should be withdrawn are associated with the option of comfort care being presented.
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Nutritional support is an essential component of caring for critically ill patients.
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The author reviewed the strategies of predicting and preventing type 1 diabetes across the different stages of development of the disorder. Not only can risk for type 1 diabetes be predicted, but the approximate age of diabetes onset in children can be ascertained.
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Does Screening for Type 2 Diabetes Pay Off?; Surgical Treatment of Diabetes; Benefits and Consequences of Aldosterone Antagonists for HF
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Aspirin therapy, as compared with placebo, significantly reduced the rate of major vascular events with improved net clinical benefit and also reduced the rate of recurrent venous thromboembolism.
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The 12-lead ECG shown above was obtained from a 50-year-old man with new-onset chest pain. Is this ECG likely to represent a benign early repolarization pattern or the early stage of acute anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)?