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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full January 1, 2010 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full January 1, 2010 Issue in PDF
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Novel H1N1 Influenza
The novel H1N1 influenza pandemic differs in significant ways from typical seasonal influenza in demographics and epidemiology. -
Trauma Reports
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A(H1N1) 'Swine Flu' 2009 / 2010: Where We've Been, What We Now Know, Where We May Be Heading
In the past nine months, the world has witnessed the outbreak of not one but two waves of pandemic influenza due to a new virus of swine origin. World public health authorities moved quickly to contain what appeared initially to be the severe pandemic that had been anticipated for so long. -
Intensive Lipid Lowering in ACS Patients Undergoing PCI
Intensive lipid lowering with statin therapy (atorvastatin 80 mg) in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) resulted in improved outcomes compared to treatment with moderate lipid lowering (pravastatin 40 mg) in the PROVE-IT TIMI-22 study (Cannon et al. N Engl J Med. 2004;350:1495-1504), which included patients treated conservatively, as well as those treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). -
Continuing Low-dose Aspirin with Peptic Ulcer Bleeding
Recurrent peptic ulcer bleeding was increased in patients with known cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease when daily low-dose aspirin was continued along with proton-pump inhibitors, but overall mortality was significantly less during the 8-week follow-up. -
Hospital Medicine Alert - Full March, 2010 Issue in PDF
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Pharmacokinetics of IV Immunoglobulins and Outcome in GBS
Fixed dose of IVIg may not be effective in all patients with GBS. -
Lending a (Clean) Hand: Improving Hand-hygiene Practices
When ICU practitioners worked under senior clinicians who modeled good hand-hygiene practices, their own behavior with respect to hand hygiene improved.