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For patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), the optimal doses of aspirin and clopidogrel remain unknown.
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Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is known to be associated with troponin leaks and ST-wave depression on ECG, both potential markers of ischemia. However, the exact significance of these findings is unclear.
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A Canadian study reveals that while a majority of elderly patients undergoing hemiarthroplasty did not receive home care upon discharge, those that did had longer short-term survival.
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This observational study compared simultaneous arterial and central venous blood gases in a mixed patient population and found high agreement between normal gases after the application of a predefined adjustment algorithm.
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In this single-center study of what happened to 126 consecutive patients who survived an ICU admission requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, 56% of them were alive after one year, but only 11 of these were functioning independently. On average, the patients spent 74% of all post-discharge days in the hospital, in a post-acute care facility, or at home receiving paid home health care.
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A retrospective study of 12,333 infants < 6 months of age with urinary tract infections showed no difference in treatment failure between short-course (≤ 3 days) and long-course (≥ 4 days) of antibiotic therapy.
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A critically ill patient, who was a heroin user, was admitted to a hospital in Scotland in December 2009 and was found to be infected with Bacillus anthracis.
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The dispatcher-assisted resuscitation trial (DART) tested the hypothesis that 911 dispatcher instructions to provide chest compressions only would be superior to similar instructions that included both chest compressions and rescue breathing. Calls to a 911 system for patients in cardiac arrest were eligible for inclusion in the trial if the dispatcher felt the patient was in cardiac arrest and bystander CPR had not yet been attempted.
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For this study of bacterial contamination of the cell phones of health care workers in a teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia, the investigators swabbed the screen, dialing pad, and sides of the phones and used standard culture techniques.
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There is considerable concern regarding in-stent thrombosis of drug-eluting stents (DES) when aspirin and clopidogrel are stopped for non-cardiac surgery (NCS), but a paucity of data.
