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‘Robust’ Error Disclosure Systems Needed for Pediatric Patients
Ethical obligations to disclose medical errors in the pediatric setting are very similar to those involving competent adults. Experts can provide guidance on how to frame information about a medical error in ways appropriate to the developmental, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual needs of each child.
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Study: Trial Results for New Neurological Drugs Often Go Unpublished
Results of clinical trials for “stalled” neurological drugs — those which had at least one completed Phase III trial but failed to receive FDA approval — are heavily underreported, found a new study.
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Advance Care Planning for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies
Misconceptions among both patients and clinicians about the role of palliative care and its relationship to “aggressive treatment” of hematologic malignancies contribute to high rates of aggressive interventions at the end of life, and a high proportion of in-hospital deaths.
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Conversations on Ethics of Difficult Cases Often Help Clinical Team
Clinicians found debriefing sessions after difficult cases helpful because they permitted the discussion of values, found a recent study.
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Study: Biggest Barrier to Advance Care Planning Is Time
Lack of time and skill are two barriers to advance care planning cited by physicians, according to recent research. There also is a lack of clarity as to who is responsible for these difficult discussions.
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Analysis Shows Decline in Funding for Cardiac Arrest Research
Even though it’s a leading cause of death in the United States, researchers investigating cardiac arrest receive a smaller portion of the federal funding pie.
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Does Dexmedetomidine Improve Patient Outcomes in Sepsis?
In patients with sepsis requiring mechanical ventilation, use of dexmedetomidine compared with no dexmedetomidine did not result in an improvement in 28-day mortality or ventilator-free days.
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Resilience in the ICU: A Valuable Asset for Families
Interventions that teach resilience may improve family members’ experiences in the ICU.
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Management of Pulmonary Embolism in the ICU
Small, low-risk pulmonary embolism can be treated as an outpatient procedure or with heparin infusion alone, but higher-risk pulmonary embolism cases are managed properly in an ICU. With the introduction of newer modalities of treatment, appropriate risk stratification and the choice of treatment are increasingly complex.
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Going Wireless: Combining the Subcutaneous ICD With a Leadless Pacemaker
A system incorporating an entirely subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator that can command a novel leadless anti-tachycardia pacemaker unidirectionally showed success and promise in an early, short-term animal trial.