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When Hackers Target Hospitals
Is your ED prepared?
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Update
COPD is a chronic, incurable but very treatable condition. This syndrome is identified by historical clues, clinical signs and symptoms, and physiologic and imaging abnormalities.
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Vendors provide advice on EMR usability
Engage in development process, take part in usability tests, provide feedback.
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New guidance on imaging tests for a range of chest pain scenarios
Authors of the new guidelines say they based their recommendations on real-world practice and the clinician’s judgment.
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Public health authorities race to contain fast-moving Zika outbreak
Frontline providers introduce new screening questions, procedures aimed at identifying pregnant women who may have been exposed to the deadly virus.
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Emergency Airway Management: A Targeted Review of Difficult Trauma Situations
Airway management is one of the cornerstones of emergency medicine practice and resuscitation. An emergency clinician must have a strategy for these situations based on clinical skills, available devices, urgency of the situation, and potential consultants.
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Does the Use of Saline vs Buffered Crystalloid Reduce Risk of Acute Kidney Injury in ICU?
The use of a buffered crystalloid compared with saline did not reduce the risk of acute kidney injury in patients receiving crystalloid fluid therapy in the ICU.
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Effects of a Rapid Response System Driven by Real-time Automated Clinical Alerts on Hospital Mortality and Length of Stay
The addition of an automated real-time clinical deterioration alert system to a rapid response system had marginal effects.
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New Insights Into Alveolar Mechanics and Gas Exchange in Experimental Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Experimental acute respiratory distress syndrome was induced in mice to study local alveolar gas dynamics using advanced microimaging techniques. Heretofore unrecognized disturbances in alveolar ventilation will alter our understanding of alveolar mechanics and gas exchange dysfunction as well as promote the use of recruitment maneuvers.
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Swallowing Dysfunction in Critical Illness
Maintaining a high index of suspicion for the presence of possible swallowing dysfunction is key for the clinician.