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The FDA has mandated a Black Box warning for all estrogen and estrogen/progestin products for use by postmenopausal women. The new warnings are based on analysis of data from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) study that was published July 2002.
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Synopsis: In this small study, differences in the respiratory rate to tidal volume ratio (RTVR) after 1 hour of spontaneous breathing with ATC were a good predictor of whether patients would remain extubated or require reintubation. But was it really better than other tests?
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Reversible myocardial dysfunction may be much more common in critical illness than has been generally appreciated.
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Recent reports from Paris that scores of patients developed aplastic anemia after receiving eprex, the oxygen therapeutic drug known generically as erythropoietin (EPO), have some stateside researchers puzzled.
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Despite measures taken following the resurgence of TB cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many health care workers still poorly understand respiratory isolation procedures, says Kevin P. Fennelly, MD, MPH, researcher at the Center for Emerging Pathogens of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
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As hospitals struggle to comply with aspects of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), one thorny issue is whether patients can be transferred from an ICU of one hospital to the emergency department of another hospital, based on an accepting physicians request.
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The metabolic syndrome (tms), also known as the deadly quartet, Reavens syndrome, the insulin resistance syndrome, etc, has attracted considerable attention over the past few years, as it has been suspected that individuals with TMS are at increased risk for vascular disease, as well as the development of type 2 diabetes.
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The long-term success of revascularization by coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is not infrequently limited by degeneration, and ultimately failure, of venous conduits.
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Doppler echocardiographic techniques for estimating pulmonary artery (PA) systolic pressure (SP) and diastolic pressure (DP) using tricuspid (TR) and pulmonic valve (PV) regurgitation (PR), jet velocity and estimation of right atrial pressure (RAP) usually by inspection of the size and dynamics of the inferior vena cava (IVC) have been well described.
