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Dedicated Medication Nurse Did Not Reduce Error Rates
Use of a dedicated medication nurse had no effect on the total number of medication errors based on observations performed in medical, surgical, and mixed medical-surgical units. -
Special Feature: Recruitment Maneuvers in ARDS
Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a supportive life-saving therapy in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In the last decade, the possibility that MV can produce alterations in lungs, namely ventilator-induced lung injury, has been recognized. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Pharmacology Watch: Vioxx Might Control Postoperative Knee Pain
Oral rofecoxib (Vioxx) may have a role in controlling postoperative pain patients undergoing knee surgery. -
Full January 2004 Issue in PDF
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Full April 2004 Issue in PDF
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Special Feature: Critical Care Management of the Jehovah’s Witness Patient
Few clinical situations place intensive care practitioners in a more uncomfortable position than does treating patients of the Jehovahs Witness faith. The faith-based refusal of autogenous or allogenic blood transfusions conflicts with the typical life-saving intent implicit in the critical care environment. However, it is our obligation to have a basic level of understanding of the set of beliefs that leads to the choice to refuse this specific set of life-saving therapies, while accepting other aspects of modern medical care. -
Pharmacology Watch: Estrogen Found to Not Affect Heart Disease, Breast Cancer
Antibiotics Associated With Cancer Risk; Topiramate Effective Against Migraine; Statin Therapy For Heart Failure; FDA Actions. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Should Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease be Intubated?
Mortality among patients with advanced cirrhosis who required intubation and mechanical ventilation was related more to the derangement of liver function than to the severity of critical illness as assessed by APACHE II or SAPS.