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Nasal site MRSA surveillance may miss colonization
Nasal swabs identified only two-thirds of MRSA carriers. -
Pharmacology Watch: Statins and Cognition — More to the Story?
Side effects of statins; effects of cannabis use; antihypertensives and lip cancer; and FDA actions. -
U.S. Rabies Update: Survival from Rabies, and Death in a Haitian Woman
An 8-year-old girl from rural California who had been scratched by unvaccinated cats developed flaccid paralysis and rabies encephalitis. She was treated with a therapeutic coma protocol and survived after a 52-day hospitalization. -
Crystalloid Solutions Still Better than Colloid Solutions for Fluid Resuscitation
This blinded, randomized, controlled trial reports a higher risk of mortality, need for renal replacement therapy, and blood product transfusion in patients treated with the colloid solution hydroxyethyl starch compared to those treated with the crystalloid solution Ringers acetate. -
ECG Review: Why Is the Rhythm VT?
Scenario: The ECG shown above was obtained from a patient whose blood pressure was dropping. How many reasons can you cite to support a diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia (VT)? -
Hospital Medicine Alert - Full October 2012 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Medical Emergency Team Calls in the Radiology Department
Ott and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh reviewed all medical-emergency team (MET) calls to the radiology department involving adult inpatients during a 2-year period. -
Pharmacology Update: Does Azithromycin Cause Cardiovascular Death?
In this issue: Azithromycin and cardiac risk; warfarin and heart failure; aspirin and VTE; effectiveness of long-acting contraceptives; and FDA actions. -
Critical Care Alert July 2012 Issue in PDF