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The threat of a post-antibiotic era when once treatable infections are impervious to all available drugs is typically evoked as some future specter to force present change. In reality, at the very narrow margins, it is already here.
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Recognizing their common stake in preserving antibiotics, a diverse collaboration of more than a dozen groups -- including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America recently joined in a partnership that began with the issuance of the following joint statement:
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In an apparent attempt to err on the side of patient safety, advisors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made recommendations for influenza vaccination of health care personnel (HCP) that went beyond the scientific evidence and now are the source of mandatory and punitive policies, the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) charges.
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Aspirin use and AMD risk; using NSAIDs and antihypertensive agents; and FDA actions.
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Disproportionately longer time was allocated to ICU patients discussed early in attending physician handoff sessions, regardless of complexity or severity of illness.
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Aspirin therapy, as compared with placebo, significantly reduced the rate of major vascular events with improved net clinical benefit and also reduced the rate of recurrent venous thromboembolism.
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) and stroke are common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but many such patients are not anticoagulated for fear of bleeding complications.
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A surgeon reported having suffered a sharps injury while performing an orthopedic procedure.
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