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In this study from a single medical ICU, prompting physicians to discuss all six items on a daily rounding checklist, as compared with the use of the same checklist without prompting, significantly improved several processes of care and appeared to decrease length of stay and mortality as well.
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Patients who have had percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with either bare metal stents (BMS) or drug-eluting stents (DES) require dual antiplatelet therapy until the stent struts are endothelialized. However, patients who have had prior PCI often need to undergo surgery.
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Admission to an ICU increased risk for unintentional medication discontinuation in four of five medication groups commonly used to manage a chronic illness.
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Failed extubation is more likely to occur in elderly patients with underlying chronic cardiac or pulmonary disease, and patients in whom it occurs have substantially worse clinical outcomes than those who do not require reintubation.
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Adding gabapentin to valacyclovir early in the treatment of acute herpes zoster may reduce the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia.
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While 16% of patients with candidemia had possible or probable ocular involvement, only 6 of 370 (1.6%) developed endophthalmitis.
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This report is from the ARISTOTLE trial, which was just reported at the recent European Society of Cardiology meeting in Paris.
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Perioperative cardiac events are the leading cause of surgical mortality.
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Lifetime Risk of Developing COPD: A Longitudinal Population Study; The Burden of Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy; Predictive Value of Postprandial Glucose for CV Events in Type 2 Diabetes; Vitamin E and Prostate Cancer; Is There a Relationship Between Insulin Glargine and Cancer?; Saw Palmetto and BPH: Not
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The objective of this study was to estimate the use of vte prophylaxis in women undergoing major gynecologic surgery and to estimate the patient, physician, and hospital characteristics associated with their use.
