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CVD decreases with aggressive treatment
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 2, 2010 Issue in PDF
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 2, 2010 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Strangulation Injuries
You are on duty in the ED when the paramedics bring in a patient from the county jail who had tried to hang himself. When the patient arrives, you are told by the accompanying guard that the patient was found with a tightly twisted bedsheet around his neck and looped over the bedpost of the metal bunkbed. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmacology Watch: Aggressive Modification of Cardiovascular Risk Factors
In this issue: Aggressive approach to CVD reÿ -
Special Feature: Should All ICUs Have 24/7 In-house Intensivist Coverage?
One of the hottest topics in critical care these days is whether all ICUs should be staffed around the clock, seven days a week (24/7), by physicians with special training and qualifications in critical care (intensivists). -
Medical Emergency Teams: Does Rapid Response Make a Difference?
The use of a rapid response system (RRS), or medical emergency team (MET), has become established as a patient safety measure to ensure early detection of patient compromise. -
Critical Care Alert August 2010 Issue in PDF
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Editor's Note
This issue deals with two key topics in the ongoing discussion about how critical care should be organized: rapid response systems (also called medical emergency teams or rapid response teams) for identifying patients not in ICUs who are at risk for life-threatening deterioration, and around-the-clock intensivist staffing in the ICU.