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Disciplinary Action, Terminations, Gag Orders: ‘Avalanche Effect’
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, hospitals suddenly had to determine how to ration scarce critical care resources. Hospitals could not change the fact they were caught without enough personal protective equipment (PPE) and could not immediately obtain more of it. However, they could control whether they responded ethically. Some hospitals imposed gag orders on staff, barring them from voicing concerns about PPE publicly. Nurses and physicians have been disciplined or threatened with termination for reporting inadequate PPE on social media.
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Making Critical Care Triage Policies Transparent to Patients, Community
Certain hospitals are including information on their critical care triage policies in admission packets to explain how care or supplies will be allocated if rationing becomes necessary. Some clinicians feel ethically obligated to inform everyone up front of the possibility. Others think it is better to do so only if and when it becomes necessary.
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Clinical Ethicists ‘Doubling Down’ on Efforts as Hospitals Adjust to New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic made ethics committees players of central importance. Experts highlight areas around which ethicists can shape the conversation.
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Tucatinib Tablets (Tukysa)
Tucatinib should be prescribed in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine to treat adults with advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.
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Estrogen Replacement: Is Long Duration of Therapy Good for the Brain?
Longer lifetime exposure to endogenous estrogen and menopausal estrogen replacement were associated with better cognitive status in older adult women.
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Heart Failure Confers Increased Risk of Venous Thromboembolic Events
In the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort, incident heart failure hospitalization with either preserved or reduced ejection fraction was associated with long-term increased risk of venous thromboembolic events.
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For Knee Arthritis: Physical Therapy or the Needle?
In a small, randomized, controlled trial of patients with knee osteoarthritis, those who received physical therapy reported less pain and functional disability at one year than those who received one or more glucocorticoid intra-articular injections. -
Empiric Anti-MRSA Therapy in Pneumonia May Not Always Be a Good Idea
In a retrospective cohort study, empiric anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus treatment was not associated with a reduction in mortality in any subgroup of patients studied and appeared to cause harm in many.
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Investigators Uncover More Troubling Data About the Adverse Health Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Recent study revealed women who consume just one such beverage per day were at a much higher risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease.
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Fauci Taps the Brakes on Widespread Reopening
Warning of the risk of opening up the economy too quickly, infectious disease expert said the United States could see a painful resurgence of COVID-19.