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The purpose of this study was to compare the usual method of physician-directed weaning from mechanical ventilation to a weaning protocol directed and managed by bedside ICU nurses.
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Adolescent girls may not be straightforward about gynecologic issues, and the emergency practitioner should specifically and in a sensitive manner ask about the patients gynecologic history.
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Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
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Using the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool to routinely assess pain in non-verbal ICU patients improved both the frequency of documented pain assessments and the administration of analgesics in two Canadian ICUs.
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Medications for Risk Reduction of Breast Cancer in Women
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Although mortality rates for sepsis have improved over the past two decades, its increasing incidence has resulted in a tripling of the number of in-hospital deaths related to sepsis over the same time period.
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In this prospective, multicenter cohort study, intrahospital transport of ventilated patients was common and associated with complications. Whether these complications are directly attributable to the transport is questionable.
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No one wants to see the ED used inappropriately, but it can be particularly frustrating when patients keep coming back with problems that never seem to get resolved.
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In the wake of the horrific massacre of young children by a disturbed gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, there has been a national discussion about what the country can do to curb such senseless acts of violence.
