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What Should We Make of Candida Isolated from Respiratory Tract Samples?
Colonization of the respiratory tract and other sites with Candida species is common in ICU patients but it is unclear how often these species cause pneumonia that warrants antifungal therapy. -
Distress Contagion: Interpreting Health Care Team Response to ICU Stressors
The ICU is commonly viewed as a stressful environment. While common, stress responses are likely to vary over time, between individuals, and as a result of the context in which they occur. -
Intensive Insulin Therapy: A Bit More Sugar May Be Nicer
This study was designed to determine whether intensive glucose control in ICU patients reduces mortality at 90 days. Secondary outcomes included survival time during the 90 days, cause-specific death, duration of mechanical ventilation, need for renal replacement therapy, and hospital and ICU lengths of stay. -
Editor's Comment: Has Tight Glucose Control Come Full Circle?
Intensive insulin therapy in the ICU is a dynamic and controversial issue that has played out in the medical literature, at the bedside, and in the offices of policy makers over the last 8 years. -
Patients' Bath Basins May Serve as a Reservoir for Potential Sources of Infection
This study examined patients' bath basins as a possible reservoir for bacterial colonization and a risk factor for subsequent hospital-acquired infections. -
Pharmacology Watch: Guidance on the Appropriate Use of NSAIDs
In this issue: NSAIDs in the elderly; managing GI and CVD risk with NSAIDs; low-dose naltrexone and fibromyalgia; treating glucocorticoid-induced bone loss; FDA Actions. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Critical Care Alert June 2009 Issue in PDF
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Fluid Management in Adult and Pediatric Trauma Patients
Fluid therapy is an integral aspect of trauma resuscitation. -
Trauma Reports - Full May 1, 2009 Issue in PDF