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Borges and colleagues in Sao Palo, Brazil, studied 26 patients with acute lung injury or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) to determine whether atelectatic lung areas could be fully recruited and oxygenation improved using a protocol employing progressively higher levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
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West Nile Virus (WNV) infection is a growing epidemic that impacts more persons and more aspects of our health care system yearly. A significant percentage of affected patients require admission to and care in an intensive care unit (ICU).
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Drug Labels A Prescription for Misunderstanding?; Osteonecrosis of the Jaw New Side-Effect to Bisphosphate Use; Beta-Blockers and Depression Unlinked?; FDA Actions
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Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis have now emerged as common nosocomial infections in hospitals throughout the developed world. Alarmingly, recent epidemiological studies in ambulatory settings have documented C. difficile infection in both adults and children who lack the usual risk factors of prior antibiotic use or hospitalization.
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Given its lack of benefit, possible harms, and expense, magnesium sulfate should not be used for tocolysis.
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RFA should be considered a first-line therapy even after the first episode of symptomatic AFL. There is a better long-term success rate, the same risk of subsequent AF, and fewer secondary effects.
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Among adults diagnosed with heart failure who had no prior statin use, incident statin use was independently associated with lower risks of death and hospitalization among patients with or without coronary heart disease.
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A meta-analysis of 10 studies of heparin used either for prophylaxis or for treatment suggests that venous thromboembolism related to heparin-induced thrombocytopenia occurs frequently in patients previously treated with unfractionated heparin, but uncommonly in those on low molecular weight heparin.
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The stroke and death rates at one and 6 months were lower in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (> 60%) treated with endarterectomy versus stenting.
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