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What's the best drug combination with an ACE inhibitor for treatment of hypertension in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease?
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There is a 40% chance that your patients are using complementary and alternative remedies according to new report from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
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Hypothermia has been recorded throughout history. Galen, personal physician to Marcus Aurelius, wrote in his treatise "Hygiene" that newborns should be wrapped in swaddling clothes because, "it is necessarily going to come in contact with cold and heat."
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This single-center, randomized controlled trial demonstrated that intensive insulin therapy targeting blood glucose values of 80-110 mg/dL does not improve mortality, but does increase the incidence of hypoglycemia in a group of critically ill medical and surgical patients.
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Through a retrospective analysis, this study examined ICU resource use and costs for 121,747,260 inpatient hospitalizations, and found a rapid rise in Medicare ICU use with stable adjusted daily critical care costs, but increasing costs for care outside the ICU.
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A quality improvement intervention aimed at improving palliative care in the ICU resulted in improvements of nurse-assessed quality of dying and a reduction in ICU length of stay, but no changes in family perceptions of quality of dying or satisfaction with care.