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Pharmacology Watch: FDA Approves Apixaban for Patients with Nonvalvular AF
In this issue: Apixaban approval; new dental clinical practice guideline; apixaban for VTE; aspirin resistance; tamoxifen treatment; and FDA actions. -
Critical Care Alert February 2013 Issue in PDF
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Organizational Factors Contribute to Adoption of ICU-Care Management Protocols
The purpose of this study was to determine which protocols guiding the management of mechanical ventilation are incorporated into practice and to determine if any organizational characteristics of hospitals are associated with the adoption of protocols using evidence-based treatments. -
Using Natriuretic Peptide to Guide Fluid Management During Ventilator Weaning
This multicenter, randomized controlled trial compared daily B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) measurements as a way to guide fluid management with usual care in patients undergoing weaning from mechanical ventilation. -
Life After the ICU: Improving Decision Making About Chronic Critical Illness in the Acute Care Setting
n their 1985 article The Chronically Critically Ill: To Save or Let Die?, Girard and Raffin created the term chronically critically ill to describe patients admitted to an ICU who survived their acute insults but remained dependent on intensive care therapies. -
Resistant bugs a top CDC priority, will CMS follow?
The antibiotic pipeline is really on life support -
Live and let live: Why trying to ‘kill the bug’ only spurs more antibiotic resistance
CDC: C. diff and CRE are urgent threats -
Debate: Should infected surgeons disclose status?
There is a striking disconnect between patients and infectious disease clinicians on the controversial issue of whether surgeons and other health care workers infected with bloodborne pathogens should disclose their status before performing invasive procedures. -
Flu: 41% of nursing home workers unvaccinated
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C. diff Transmission: It’s Complicated
Most cases are not linked to other patients