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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 31, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 31, 2009 Issue in PDF
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Critical Care Alert September 2009 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmacology Watch: Meta-analysis Compares Antihypertensive Classes
In this issue: Comparing blood pressure medications, determining optimal length of androgen-deprivation therapy, red yeast rice for LDL reduction, and FDA Actions. -
Quality of Life Among Survivors of ICU Admission for COPD
This paper reports on a comprehensive follow-up of patients with severe airway obstruction who were admitted to 92 ICUs or to 3 high-dependency respiratory units in the United Kingdom during 2002 and 2003. -
Critical Care Alert August 2009 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Special Feature: Get out of Bed and Walk!
Early in my career as a respiratory therapist, we had an unusual piece of equipment in the ICU the Birdmobile. This distinctive piece of equipment was a souped-up walker with wheels, to which we added a Bird Mark 7 ventilator, oxygen tanks, and a seat. -
Gastric or Duodenal Feeding Tubes: Does It Matter?
In this study examining both the attainment of nutritional goals and the incidence of complications related to enteral feeding, patients in the medical ICU of a university-affiliated tertiary hospital in Taiwan were randomized to nutritional support via nasoduodenal (ND) vs nasogastric (NG) tubes.