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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: 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. -
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. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmaceutical company ruling
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Sexual side effects of finasteride
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FDA actions
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Patient Flow Solutions: Lean-driven improvements slash wait times, drive up patient satisfaction scores
Who says change takes a long time to implement? Certainly not Susan Peach, MBA, BSN, a division chief nursing officer at LifePoint Hospitals, based in Brentwood, TN. -
CMS announces Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will provide up to $75 million to 11 states and the District of Columbia to test whether Medicaid can support higher quality care at a lower total cost by reimbursing private psychiatric hospitals for some services for which reimbursement has historically not been available. -
Study: ED-based care coordination interventions need to fit unique needs of ED settings, providers
To keep a lid on costs, health care policy experts recognize that hospitals need to find more effective ways to manage transitions.