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Does Your Cell Phone Give You Headaches? Not Likely
No evidence was found to indicate that people with self-reported sensitivity to mobile phone signals are able to detect such signals or that they react to them with increased symptom severity. -
Stroke vs Stroke Mimics: Diagnosis at the Bedside
This prospective study demonstrates that clinical features such as focal deficits, a clear time of onset, and absence of non-neurological signs distinguish a stroke diagnosis from other diagnoses at the bedside. -
Simulation Training Beats Problem-Based Approach
Despite favorable reviews, limited evidence supports the benefit of high fidelity human simulation (HFHS) in preference to more traditional forms of health care provider education. -
Lung-Protective Ventilation Saves Lives, But We Don’t Use It
Kalhan and colleagues at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (a participating ARDSNet investigation site) performed a prospective observational cohort study of patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) managed in their ICUs during a 22-month period beginning after publication of the initial ARDSNet study. -
Full April 2006 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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ARDS in Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Using a website-based international registry of patients with catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS), Bucciarelli et al sought to determine how often ARDS occurred as a complication. -
New Trick for Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation?
Some studies have shown that breathing through an endotracheal tube imposes a small but measurable excess respiratory workload. -
Full April 2006 Issue in PDF
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Pharmacology Watch: Can Calcium and Vitamin D Prevent Hip Fractures?
Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee; Refractory Asthma and TNFConnection?; FDA Actions