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Effects of Coenzyme Q10 in Chronic Heart Failure Patients
SYNOPSIS: Treatment with coenzyme Q10 in addition to standard therapy for patients with moderate to severe HF is safe, well tolerated, and associated with a reduction in symptoms and major adverse cardiovascular events.
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Is BMI Good Enough to Measure Visceral Adiposity?
SYNOPSIS: A large international study found frequent discordance between body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), driven by the substantial variability in visceral adiposity. Within each BMI category, patients with the highest WC were more likely to have higher cardiometabolic risk.
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Alternating Morphology Every-other-beat
Interpretation: The underlying rhythm in this simultaneously recorded 3-lead tracing is a narrow-complex tachycardia.
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Influenza, 2014-2015 — Something Old, Something New
As of early January, influenza activity had reached epidemic proportions in large parts of the United States, with many of those being affected despite prior vaccination.1 The occurrence of infection in vaccinated individuals is not unexpected since influenza vaccine efficacy is usually only approximately 60%.
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Enterovirus D68 a prime suspect, but CDC still investigating cause of paralytic syndrome in kids
With more than 100 children in 34 states still suffering from a mysterious flaccid paralysis syndrome that coincided with a national outbreak last fall of Enterovirus D68, the CDC looks for answers.
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CMS publically reporting hospital flu vac rates
Public reporting is raising the stakes for HCW flu vaccinations.
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FDA says it’s time to inform patients about risk as CRE outbreaks linked to endoscopes continue
An upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half million U.S. patients annually poses a risk of transmission of practically untreatable carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), FDA warns.
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CRE recommendations for facilities, clinicians
An absolute most for CRE: Whem transferring a patient notify the other facility about infections
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Reservoir bugs: CRE in long term acute care hospitals threatens to spread to other facilities
Long term acute care (LTAC) hospitals have been described as a "perfect storm" for emergence of multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs).
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
The problem of diagnosing TB in children
How best to treat latent TB?
Transmission risk in smear-negative TB