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A significant proportion of patients with difficult- to-control asthma are non-adherent to both inhaled and oral corticosteroid therapy.
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Data early on in the pandemic influenza outbreak suggested that most severely ill patients with influenza A were not suffering from bacterial co-infection.
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A monoclonal antibody against interleukin-12 and interleukin-23 has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of plaque psoriasis. Ustekinumab is marketed as a subcutaneous injection by Centocor Ortho Biotech as Stelara™.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 60-year-old man with a history of a dilated cardiomyopathy. Given this information, what clinical concerns might you have if this patient presented to the emergency department in heart failure with the tracing above?
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The American College of Surgeons (ACS) most recent recommendations on infection prevention and safety in the operating room are summarized as follows:
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You might receive a citation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) if you fail to assess respiratory hazards related to H1N1 pandemic influenza A, don't use various methods to reduce employee exposure or fail to consider respirators other than N95s when there is a shortage.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's compliance directive to protect health care workers from H1N1 pandemic influenza A includes a series of questions inspectors may ask when on a health care site visit. Know the answers to these and you're OSHA ready in terms of H1N1:
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Infection preventionists recently received some legal advice, and it wasn't quite as bleak as the old admonition to put everything you own under your spouse's name.
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Though a growing sense of public apathy threatens to reduce H1N1 influenza A to the Rodney Dangerfield of pandemics, those who have experienced or witnessed a severe case of infection will not soon forget this erstwhile "swine flu."
