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In North America, rotavirus gastroenteritis is a predictable winter epidemic every year--young children presenting to emergency departments and outpatient clinics with fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and varying degrees of dehydration.
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Everyone who provides care for patients in emergency departments is well aware of the annual winter-spring spike in patient volume due to influenza disease and its complications.
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In ACS patients without persistent ST-segment elevation, there is a strong, consistent, temporal, and dose-related association between bleeding and death.
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The 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation clarify previous recommendations for anticoagulation to prevent other thromboembolic events.
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Aspiration of oropharyngeal secretions is considered one of the mechanisms of development of VAP. In this randomized trial of two oral decontamination medications, the authors show a significant reduction in the incidence of VAP.
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Both nitazoxanide and the investigational anionic polymer, tolevamer, may have efficacy comparable to that of standard therapies in the treatment of CDAD. The addition of rifampin to metronidazole is not superior to treatment with metronidazole alone.
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A medical research unit in the United Kingdom analyzed 18 different strategies for managing patients with suspected DVT.
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The SPARCL study showed that 80 mg per day of atorvastatin reduced the overall incidence of recurrent stroke, and a meta-analysis of several large studies of ACE inhibitors showed a reduction in all stroke types, as well as a reduction in overall cardiovascular mortality.