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You find yourself wrestling with an uncooperative, intoxicated trauma patient who removes his own cervical collar. It's easy to see that this scenario is fraught with legal risks, but what is the right thing to do in this kind of situation?
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Airway management that results in a negligence claim usually involves a "difficult airway." Airways classified as difficult typically are compromised by an anatomical or other condition that makes intubation by the oral, nasal, or surgical routes difficult or impossible.
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An elderly man comes to your ED and is admitted to the hospital with severe dehydration and fever of unknown origin. Two days later, an X-ray reveals pneumonia.
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In the early civil cases litigated under the law in the 1990s, the courts held that EMTALA's duty to stabilize continued to apply throughout the patient's entire stay in the hospital, no matter how long it was.
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Long-term disease control remains an elusive target for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), even after aggressive therapy.
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In a retrospective analysis of 323 patients with multiple myeloma, of which 169 patients received one or another form of ESA for treatment of disease or treatment-associated anemia, multivariate analysis, using a proportional hazard model, indicated worse progression-free and overall survival associated with ESA treatment.
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Sorafenib is a multikinase inhibitor approved for treatment of renal cell and hepatocellular carcinomas.
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Capecitabine and oxaliplatin were used in combination for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer refractory to first-line gemcitabine.
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Ongoing safety review of tiotropium; raloxifene reduces the risk of endometrial cancer; one-day treatment with famciclovir may be as effective as 3-day treatment with valacyclovir; new Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians regarding pharmacologic treatment for low bone density and osteoporosis; FDA Actions.
