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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full February 9, 2014 Issue in PDF
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Tick-borne Illness in the ED: Part I
Lyme disease is the most common vector disease. It often presents with erythema chronicum migrans in its earliest and most treatable stage.
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Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Full February 2014 Issue in PDF
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Hospital: No patient deaths linked to CRE outbreak
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CDC still hopeful NDM threat can be contained
In a shrinking global village it seems a pathogen emerging anywhere is soon a threat everywhere, but public health officials are not conceding victory to the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). -
CRE endoscope outbreak raises troubling questions about reprocessing, emerging New Delhi enzyme
An upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half million patients annually in the U.S. may pose risk for transmission of the emerging New Delhi variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) even if current cleaning and high level disinfection protocols are followed. -
OK, this may really be the stuff of nightmares
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As CRE increases don't forget CDC toolkit
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Patients apparently eager for pharmacogenics-based prescribing
Pharmacogenics-based prescribing can determine whether individual patients will benefit from certain drugs, and there is broad public support for this. -
Bioethicists "ideally qualified" to help address disruptive behavior
Bioethicists are well-qualified to help address disruptive behavior by physicians, but often aren't involved in this process.