Unfortunate outcomes are a fact of medicine, as too are lawsuits for alleged malpractice.
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common and severe nosocomial infection which is being seen with alarming frequency in hospitalized patients.
For this study of bacterial contamination of the cell phones of health care workers in a teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia, the investigators swabbed the screen, dialing pad, and sides of the phones and used standard culture techniques.
In this issue: Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.
Daily chest radiographs have long been a staple of practice for intubated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and their use persists despite several studies questioning whether they are of any benefit to patients.
Unroe and associates prospectively enrolled 126 consecutive survivors of prolonged mechanical ventilation, along with their surrogates, and followed them for 1 year after discharge from the ICU.
