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There has been a drum roll of reports over the past several years regarding high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in the evaluation of primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention.
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Synopsis: In asymptomatic patients with preexcitation, electrophysiologic testing can stratify the risk of future symptomatic and fatal arrhythmic events.
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Synopsis: Amiodarone is superior to placebo for cardioversion of AF when measured at 24 hours after drug administration.
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Synopsis: Death due to cardiac structural complications is rare in young Marfans patients followed carefully on medical therapy, but arrhythmogenic sudden death occurs and is more common in those with LV dilatation.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse ReactionsGuidance for Clinicians in the Jan. 24th edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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For many occupations, workplace violence represents a serious occupational risk. Acts such as physical assault or the threat of physical assault are considered workplace violence. The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Acts General Duty Clause requires employers to provide a safe and healthful working environment for all workers covered by the OSH Act of 1970.
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For many hospice professionals, dying in an intensive care unit (ICU) may seem like the antithesis of the gentle, peaceful death experience they try to facilitate every day for terminally ill patients and their families. Other than a vague sense that intensive care for dying patients might be futile and even wasteful -- or that those patients should have been referred to hospice care instead -- hospice professionals may not pay much attention to what goes on in the ICU, even within their own health systems.
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Unlike other specialties in health care, family members as well as the patient are considered clients for the hospice team. Therefore, the specialized services available from hospice clinicians and volunteers are intended to address the physical, spiritual, social, cognitive, and emotional needs of the entire family system. Yet, understanding the family dynamic and how it should influence care can be a challenge.
