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Studies using computed tomography have shown that patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) typically have a cephalocaudal gradient in the distribution of lung density, with the greatest density (and collapse) in the lung bases adjacent to the diaphragm.
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Over a 3-month period, all patients who required mechanical ventilation in the ICU of Tygerberg Academic Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, were enrolled in this study.
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Associations between the number of patients managed (hospital volume) and improved patient survival have been extensively documented in the surgical literaturesuch as cardiac surgery, ruptured aortic aneurysm, and several types of cancer surgeryand suggested for selected medical conditions, such as acute myocardial infarction and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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New Hope for Macular Degeneration?; Can Cialis be Used for Edema?; FDA Actions
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Are day care centers exclusion policies inadvertently fueling antibiotic resistance in Shigella sonnei? That is the question Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologists are pondering after a spate of outbreaks in 2005.
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New public health recommendations to routinely test people for HIV will have a significant impact on the AIDS epidemic, said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, laboratory-based surveillance of coagulase-negative staphylococci found that 4% were linezolid-resistant. MIC's to linezolid were generally > 256 µg/mL; the isolates were all susceptible to vancomycin and daptomycin.
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In an ominous finding, an epidemic strain of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has developed intermediate resistance to vancomycin, the classic antibiotic weapon against resistant staph infections, Hospital Infection Control has learned.