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In this issue: Anticholinergic drugs for COPD; pioglitazone for diabetes prevention; insulin degludec in Phase 3 trials; and FDA Actions.
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Although previous studies have suggested that hypocalcemia, a common problem in critical illness, is associated with increased mortality in ICU patients, and correction of hypocalcemia has been advocated to prevent neurologic and cardiovascular complications, the literature is still unclear as to the precise relationship between abnormal calcium levels both hypo- and hypercalcemia and ICU outcomes.
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Chronically critically ill patients are projected to increase in number over the next 10 years.
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Although the diagnosis of cancer in childhood is relatively rare, with an annual incidence of 165 cases per million,
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The neonatal population (birth to 1 month of age) provides a unique and difficult challenge for diagnosis and treatment in the emergency department, and a systematic approach is critical to allow for rapid diagnosis and subsequent therapy in the setting of a potentially sick neonate.
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Do you treat elderly patients waiting in the ED as you would expect your own family member to be treated as if they were the only ones there?
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Before ED nurses at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, MN, administered tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a man in his 80s with obvious stroke symptoms, the neurologist was consulted and also the patient's family members, says Kathie Pulchinski, RN, ED nurse manager.
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Editor's Note: This is a two-part series on medication safety for inpatients being held in the ED. This month, we give strategies to reduce errors with inpatient medications. Last month, we gave strategies to avoid missed dosages.
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Is a cardiac-arrest patient failing to wake up and follow commands? "Therapeutic hypothermia is one of the few therapies we can offer," says Marion Leary, BSN, RN, assistant director of clinical research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Resuscitation Science in Philadelphia.