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Health care workers are expected to practice without error, an ideal that in reality does not occur. In fact, errors occur more frequently that we would prefer.
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For patients who required > 48 hours of mechanical ventilation, daily routine chest radiographs and films obtained based on clinical indications produced similar outcomes.
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Two severely ill patients in the emergency department of your hospital need admission to intensive care, but only one bed is available. Who gets admitted first?
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A generic form of paroxetine (PaxilGlaxoSmithKline) will soon be on the market. The drug marks the second SSRI antidepressant to go generic after fluoxetine (Prozac) last year.
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Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile enemy. It is spreading in the community, as well as in the hospital, with increasing resistance to antibiotics.
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While epidemiologists await a possible natural resurgence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a cautionary tale from Singa-pore underscores that another global outbreak of SARS could be triggered by a laboratory accident.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is emphasizing that prevention must begin at the first point at which a person with suspect or probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) encounters the health care system.
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