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Special Feature: Analgesic Considerations in the Critically Ill and Injured Patient
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The ‘Sigh’ as a Recruitment Maneuver in ARDS?
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Stroke in Young People: A Different Differential
While stroke is most often a result of progressive atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, occurring with increasing frequency as the population ages, there are less common causes of stroke that mainly affect younger populations. -
Full December 10, 2007 Issue in PDF
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Supplement: Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports: Physicians and Pharmaceutical Company Representatives
Many staff emergency physicians and resident physicians interact with pharmaceutical representatives on a regular basis. It seems a fairly harmless interaction, with the emergency physician then returning to the daily grind in their busy emergency department. -
Adverse Effects of Restricted Resident Duty Hours on Patient Care, Education, and Faculty Satisfaction
The goal of this study was to elicit views of key clinical faculty members regarding the effects of residency duty-hour limits on patient care, education, professionalism and faculty satisfaction. -
Barriers to Implementing the Leapfrog Group ecommendations for ICU Staffing
This paper reports on a telephone survey of US non-rural hospitals and the physician directors of their ICUs. -
Should We Continue Using Erythropoietin in the ICU?
Previous trials have demonstrated that administration of recombinant erythropoietin to critically ill patients decreases the need for red blood cell transfusions and leads to higher hemoglobin values. -
Full December 2007 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement