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Addressing Insomnia
If cognitive behavioral therapy is insufficient to remedy insomnia, sedative-hypnotic agents must be added sometimes. Consultation with a sleep expert for refractory cases, or for cases requiring more sustained use of medications, is fully appropriate.
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Updated Hypertension Guidelines
Perhaps the most novel innovation is the recategorization of systolic blood pressure 130-139 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure 80-89 mmHg as stage 1 hypertension. Previously, this blood pressure zone was labeled prehypertension.
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Statins for COPD?
Even though numerous pharmacologic treatments are available to mollify COPD symptoms, mortality and disease progression do not appear to be altered by pharmacologic treatment.
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Educating Patients About ‘Ugly Duckling Sign’
Patients or their partners detect most malignant melanomas first. Enhancing public awareness of malignant melanomas and enabling patients to promptly and accurately identify at-risk lesions is important.
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An Overlooked Disability Burden
The sudden loss of hearing is considered an otologic emergency, requiring prompt evaluation. Only a few patients with identified hearing loss take advantage of hearing aids, perhaps daunted by issues like cost, potential stigma associated with wearing a hearing-assistive device, or comfort.
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Pediatricians Emphasize Employee Health in New Guidelines
Employee health is heavily emphasized in new infection control guidelines for ambulatory settings by the American Academy of Pediatrics. In the first update of these guidelines in a decade, the AAP emphasizes the importance of mandatory flu shots, other vaccinations as indicated, staff training to prevent transmission, and heightened awareness of the risks of presenteeism.
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Citing Inadequate Staffing, Nurses Sue Detroit Hospital
Claiming staffing deficiencies that place healthcare workers and patients at risk, a nursing union has filed a lawsuit against Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Detroit.
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CDC Recommends Antiviral Treatments Due to Flu Vaccine Mismatch
The predominant circulating influenza virus this season is a poor match with the vaccine, meaning that antiviral drug treatments may be critical for the protection of high-risk patients.
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What’s Driving Physician Burnout? Constant Change
A recent survey of healthcare leaders cited “change fatigue” as one of the primary drivers of burnout among healthcare workers, particularly physicians who work with a traditional autonomy that carries some risk of becoming isolating and depressing.
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Teaching Situational Awareness, De-escalation Techniques
Violence at some level is intrinsically unpredictable, but there are practical methods and techniques workers can be trained in to prevent events — and minimize the effect of events that do occur.