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Early, Goal-directed Therapy of Septic Shock
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: Hemodynamic management did not lead to an improvement in outcome.
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Hospital Wards with Higher Rates of Antibiotic Prescribing Are Associated with Increased Risk for C. difficile Infection
A retrospective observational study found that among hospitalized patients, ward-level antibiotic prescribing was associated with a significantly increased risk for C. difficile infection beyond what would be expected with patient-level antibiotic use.
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Pneumonia in U.S. Children Requiring Hospitalization
SYNOPSIS: Two thousand six hundred thirty-eight children with a clinical diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were enrolled in a prospective surveillance study. Eighty-nine percent had radiographic evidence of pneumonia. The median age of children hospitalized was 2 years, with the highest rates seen in children younger than 2 years. Respiratory viruses were the most commonly detected pathogens.
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Blood Transfusion After Cardiac Surgery
Due to the cost of blood transfusions and the lack of data supporting liberal transfusion policies, newer guidelines recommend more restrictive transfusion thresholds.
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Ceftolozane/Tazobactam — Formulary Considerations
A focus on the formulary considerations of Ceftolozane/tazobactam.
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Endovascular Intracranial Clot Extraction Benefits Are Confirmed in More Clinical Trials
On April 17, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of two randomized clinical trials of endovascular stent-retriever clot extraction for ischemic stroke, simultaneous with their presentation at the European Stroke Conference. These two studies, added to those presented and published at the International Stroke Conference in February, bring the total number of studies to five that have shown dramatic benefits of this therapy in appropriately selected patients with acute ischemic stroke.
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Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Prednisolone or Pentoxifylline?
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: A clinical trial studied short- and medium-term mortality in patients admitted to the hospital for severe alcoholic hepatitis.
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Getting ready for baby
It’s been nearly 10 years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report stating that hospitals needed to be better prepared for the smallest and youngest patients when they came into their emergency departments
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Falls, other harm more likely
You can get a lot of data from more than 350 million hospital admissions. What you hope to find is that the care is equivalent from day to day, patient to patient. But that is not the case. According to a study published in April in BMJ, patients who are admitted on the weekend are more likely to fall or experience some other adverse event.
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Near misses, harm from devices regular occurrence, say nurses
If there is a Sentinel Event and you do a root cause investigation, you may start by looking at what time something occurred. But if you look at an infusion pump, it might give you a completely different time than the heart monitor. Why? Because there is no central device that synchronizes time for devices. This is one of the examples of the lack of interoperability between devices and the potential problems it can cause hospitals.