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Working nights and rotating shifts can wreak havoc with your sleep schedule. Shift work has been linked to a wide range of hazards, from cardiovascular disease and cancer to fatigue that leads to errors. But researchers have an upbeat message about shift work: You can reduce those ill effects.
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Increasing workloads and pressure and an emphasis on productivity is negatively affecting the safety climate at hospitals, nurses reported in a 2008 online survey of nurses by the Silver Spring, MD-based American Nurses Association (ANA).
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Many odors are noxious, but few are as repellent as the foul smell of massive hematochezia. Everybody in the emergency department knows something is wrong. Once you get past the smell, you realize you often have a very ill patient with a complex medical history and underlying comorbidities. Disposition decision is often easy ("ADMIT"), but to whom and where?
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Rosacea patients have increased incidence of small bowel bacterial overgrowth vs controls, and the eradication of this overgrowth leads to almost complete and long-lasting skin lesion regression.
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A single injection has been approved for a fifth dose of DTaP and the fourth dose of inactivated polio (IPV) in children 4 to 6 years of age. The combination vaccine is marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as KINRIX.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 63-year-old man with chest pain. How would you interpret his tracing and accompanying lead II rhythm strip? What is there to worry about?
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Baxter Bioscience has developed a whole-virus, two dose vaccine against avian flu; warning label now on antipsychotics regarding an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementia-related psychosis; vitamin D for men with heart disease on horizon? A new oral anticoagulant may soon be available for prevention of thrombotic complications of hip or knee surgery; FDA Actions
