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Yoga and stretching are effective in treating chronic low back pain.
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The FDA has approved a new formulation of oxymorphone extended-release tablets that is designed to be crush-resistant in order to reduce the potential for diversion and abuse.
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Scenario: Interpret the ECG shown above, obtained from an older woman on multiple drugs who presented to the emergency department with chest pain and an exacerbation of her chronic heart failure. What is the rhythm? Why so much ST depression? Clinically, what would you do?
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CPAP treatment lowered blood pressure and improved metabolic abnormalities in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
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To examine the association between being placed in contact isolation and delirium, Day and colleagues at the University of Maryland Medical Center reviewed administrative data on all patients admitted during a 2-year period ending in 2009.
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Lemyze and colleagues studied a simple bedside procedure for detecting expiratory airflow obstruction in intubated, mechanically ventilated patients.
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This study was a survey of all the physicians and nurses working in 82 adult ICUs on a particular day in 2010. It was conducted by a study group of the Ethics Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the ICUs involved were in nine European countries plus Israel.
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When I was a medicine resident 40 years ago just as the first ICUs were being introduced, treatment for life-threatening bacterial infections consisted of antibiotics, control or removal of the primary source, intravenous fluids, and vasopressors.
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Fresh ileum tissue specimens from infants with NEC or non-NEC diagnoses were provided by the Pathology departments at the children's hospitals at Vanderbilt and at University of Illinois. Standard methods of nucleic acid extraction were employed.