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FDA actions
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Pharmacology Watch - Full December 2012 Issue in PDF
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Chemotherapy often misunderstood
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Hormone therapy and AD risk
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Hormone therapy and VTE risk
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmacology Watch: Statins and the Risk of Diabetes
In this issue: Statins and diabetes risk; new treatment guideline for diabetes; new pertussis vaccine recommendation; antibiotics and rhinosinusitis; fluoroquinolones and cystitis; and FDA actions. -
Abstract & Commentary: Respiratory Arrest: An Adverse Effect of Polymyxins
Wunsch and associates describe two patients who suffered respiratory arrest requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation while receiving polymyxin B. -
Abstract & Commentary: Neuroprognostication in Patients Receiving Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest
Although current guidelines recommend delaying neuroprognostication during therapeutic hypothermia following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, this review of 55 consecutive patients so managed found that a "poor prognosis" designation was arrived at during the hypothermia period in most of them, including six patients who were eventually discharged with a favorable neurologic outlook. -
Abstract & Commentary: Gender Composition of ICU Staff May Serve As a Buffer to Caregiver Burnout
The intensive care unit (ICU) can be immensely stressful for caregivers and can lead to burnout that results from chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors in the environment.