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Special Feature: Patient-Ventilator Dys-Synchrony During Lung Protective Ventilation

In 2000, the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (ARDSnet) reported an unprecedented low mortality for ARDS patients ventilated with a tidal volume of 6 mL/kg of predicted body weight (and a plateau pressure ¡Ü30 cm H2O) compared to a tidal volume of 12 mL/kg.

Pharmacology Watch: Higher HDL Cholesterol in Statin Therapy, Key to Slowing Atherosclerosis?

Citalopram Useful for Depression in CDA Patients;; When to Stop Anticoagulation Before Surgery?;; Drug Warnings: Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab;; Growth Hormone Treatment, More Harm Than Good;; FDA Actions

Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement

Full March 2007 Issue in PDF

Listeria Meningitis

Of 696 episodes of community-acquired meningitis in adults identified by the nationwide Dutch Meningitis Cohort Study from 1998 to 2002, 30 (4%) were due to Listeria monocytogenes.

Sex Differences in Acute Coronary Symptoms

The same appearances in presentation of men and women with ACS can largely be explained by factors other than sex.

Preventing Nosocomial Infection in Cardiac Surgery

Segers and colleagues of the University of Amsterdam conducted this randomized, double-blind clinical trial at a 480-bed community hospital that performs 1200 cardiac surgical procedures annually.