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Primary Care Reports - Full April 2011 Issue in PDF
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Guideline for intensive insulin therapy
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Pharmacology Watch - Full April 2011 Issue in PDF
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FDA actions
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Fidaxomicin for C. difficile infections
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Dabigatran for stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
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Abstract & Commentary: A Risk Factor for Hospital-Acquired Infections: Hand Contamination by Anesthesia Providers
In a prior study, investigators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center linked intraoperative contamination of patients' IV stopcocks with an increase in patient mortality. -
Abstract & Commentary: Mechanical Ventilation: A Marker of the End-of-Life or Loss of Independence for the Elderly?
A recent examination of the Medicare database illustrates that survival rates after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remained unchanged from 1992 to 2005. -
Special Feature: Update on Rescue Therapies for Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
Critical hypoxemia in acute respiratory failure may be defined as a degree of impairment in tissue oxygenation that in and of itself, and separately from the primary cause of the respiratory failure threatens the life of the patient. -
Emergency Department Evaluation of Stroke and TIA: Beyond the CT Scan: Part I
This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports is the first in a two-part series on imaging and evaluation of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). This part will review risk factors, history and physical examination, and computed tomography imaging. Part 2 will review magnetic resonance imaging, duplex ultrasound imaging, and treatment.