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Critical Care Alert March 2012 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Abstract & Commentary: Do Macrolide Antibiotics Improve Survival in Acute Lung Injury?
This is a report of a secondary analysis of data from the original Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network low-tidal-volume study, which demonstrated improved survival with ventilator tidal volumes of 6 (vs 12) mL/kg predicted body weight in patients meeting the American-European consensus definition of acute lung injury (ALI) or ARDS. -
Critical Care Clinicians Require Critical Communication Skills
The purpose of this article was to apply aviation communication principles and strategies to the field of critical care medicine, particularly crisis communication situations. -
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports - Full March 1, 2012 Issue in PDF
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Stroke: It's Not Just for Grown-Ups
A 12-year-old boy with an unremarkable familial and medical history presents with global aphasia and right hemiplegia 14 days after a streptococcal pharyngeal infection. A neurological examination performed three hours after symptom onset reveals a conjugate gaze deviation to the left, right hemiplegia, hemihypesthesia, and extensor plantar sign. The NIHSS score is 22. Laboratory examinations are normal. A cerebral CT shows a hyperdense left MCA and early signs of infarction in that area. -
Trauma in Children: How to Care for Traumatic Injuries in the Youngest ED Patients in PDF
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Abstract & Commentary: Treating VAP: The Importance of Getting Initial Antibiotic Coverage Right
This study was a secondary analysis of data from an earlier randomized clinical trial comparing one antibiotic vs two (meropenem alone or meropenem plus ciprofloxacin) as early empiric therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). -
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports - Full February 2012 Issue in PDF
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Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Children with diabetes, especially type 1, remain at risk for developing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This may seem confounding in a modern society with such advanced medical care, but the fact remains that children who are type 1 diabetics have an incidence of DKA of 8 per 100 patient years.