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Pharmacology Watch: Apixaban is Heating Up the Anticoagulation Market
In this issue: Apixaban could soon join the anticoagulation market; Chinese herbs for flu; chronic medication and discontinuation after hospitalization; and FDA actions. -
Abstract & Commentary: ICU Telemedicine Can Improve Patient Outcomes
Intensive care unit (ICU) telemedicine has been widely embraced in U.S. hospitals as part of the current focus on preventing medical errors and improving an array of measures related to the quality of care. -
Abstract & Commentary: To Brush ‘Em or Not: Does Tooth Brushing Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia?
The purpose of this review paper was to summarize the evidence on the effect of tooth brushing to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in critically ill adults and children receiving mechanical ventilatory support. -
Abstract & Commentary: Respite Staffing Decreases Intensivist Burnout
This study assessed the impact of two formats, intermittent scheduling (IS) or continuous scheduling (CS), on intensivist and patient outcomes. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmacology Watch: ACEIs and ARBs Help Patients with Aortic Stenosis
In this issue: ACEI/ARB therapy for AS; safety alert issued for dronedarone; statins and cancer risk; nesiritide and heart failure; and FDA actions. -
Special Feature: PEEP for One and PEEP for All
Would you like to start a fight? Just ask a colleague how he or she selected the level of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) for a patient. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Abstract & Commentary: Sleep Apnea and Perioperative Complications After Noncardiac Surgery
In this study of a large administrative database, the incidence of selected complications in patients diagnosed with sleep apnea (SA) was compared to that in patients undergoing similar surgical procedures who were not diagnosed with SA. -
Abstract & Commentary: Supplemental Oxygen Administration in the Morbidly Obese: When Less is Better
Current guidelines for the use of emergency oxygen recommend its judicious use in patients with obesity-associated hypoventilation (OAH) in order to avoid worsening hypercarbia, but these guidelines have largely been based on anecdotal clinical experience rather than systematically collected evidence.