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The Pros and Cons of Central Venous Catheterization Sites
ABSTRACT AND COMMENTARY: Improper placement can lead to a deep vein thrombosis or a blood stream infection. Here's guidance on doing it right.
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Blood Pressure Targets in Flux Again
Trial could be a game changer if the results are robust.
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Finally, a Positive Outcomes Study for Platelet Function Testing
Platelet function testing-defined clopidogrel nonresponsiveness can be overcome by prasugrel treatment, and that this is a modifiable risk factor whose treatment can improve outcomes.
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Slow Down, Save Lives? Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation patients receiving beta-blockers or calcium channel blockers had lower risk of mortality compared to those not taking rate-control drugs, with the lowest mortality rate in the beta-blocker group, while digoxin use was associated with a higher risk of mortality.
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Beta-blocker Dose More Important Than Heart Rate in Systolic Heart Failure
In chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, titrating beta-blocker doses may confer a greater benefit than reducing heart rate.
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Reduced Leaflet Motion in Bioprosthetic Valves
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: It's in a significant proportion of surgical and transcatheter bioprosthetic aortic valves by volume-rendered CT scans.
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Report: Congressional Brinksmanship Doomed Ebola Drug
Promising treatment withered on the vine thanks to political dithering, two years before deadly virus arrived in the United States.
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$9.5M settlement in lawsuit over out-of-network centers
On behalf of out-of-network California ASCs, a Los Angeles law firm has filed a motion for preliminary approval to settle a class action complaint it filed more than six years ago.
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The Joint Commission posts changes for 2016, alters office-based requirements
The Joint Commission has approved the 2016 accreditation and certification decision rules for all accreditation and certification programs.
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Until Nov. 16, ASCs can suppress certain public data
ASCs may choose through Nov. 16 to have 2013 and 2014 data for five claims-based measures suppressed from the Hospital Compare website, the American Hospital Association reported. The five measures are ASC-1, Patient burn; ASC-2, Patient fall; ASC-3, Wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure, wrong implant; ASC-4, Hospital transfer/admission; and ASC-5, Prophylactic IV antibiotic timing.