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Among 413 patients who underwent placement of a removable inferior vena cava filter following trauma for prophylaxis or treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism and survived to hospital discharge, subsequent removal of the filter was attempted in 116 of them and successful in only 91 (22%).
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Unfractionated heparin (UH) is commonly used in acutely ill hospital patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE).
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Since the publication of the initial IDSA Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in 2003, hospital administrators have been scrambling to improve their numbers.
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The incidence of invasive infections due to MRSA in 2005 was approximately 100 times greater in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population.
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A prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center trial demonstrates that a prolonged course of intravenous selenium improves mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock and is associated with minimal to no side effects.
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Gonococcal Infections, CDC's Updated Treatment; Head Lice Malathion First-Line Treatment; Statins, May Cut the Risk of Cataracts; FDA Actions
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Van den Berghe et al have recently reported the results of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) on morbidity and mortality in medical intensive care unit patients.
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Systemic and pulmonary inflammation are key in the development and progression of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Lack of improvements in inflammatory markers and in the lung injury score (LIS) by day 7 are associated with higher mortality.
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Several studies have suggested that procalcitonin may be a useful biochemical marker to differentiate sepsis from other, non-infectious, causes of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), such as pancreatitis.