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A prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center trial demonstrates that a prolonged course of intravenous selenium improves mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock and is associated with minimal to no side effects.
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The incidence of invasive infections due to MRSA in 2005 was approximately 100 times greater in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population.
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Since the publication of the initial IDSA Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in 2003, hospital administrators have been scrambling to improve their numbers.
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Unfractionated heparin (UH) is commonly used in acutely ill hospital patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE).
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Among 413 patients who underwent placement of a removable inferior vena cava filter following trauma for prophylaxis or treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism and survived to hospital discharge, subsequent removal of the filter was attempted in 116 of them and successful in only 91 (22%).
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IVIG is safe and effective for worsening Myasthenia Gravis, but has no effect on the natural course of Miller Fisher syndrome.
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Intensive intervention using Advance Practice Nurses reduced the use of side rails on nursing home beds and lowered the rate of bed-related falls and injuries.
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Occipital nerve stimulation appears to decrease the cluster pain and attack frequency in most, but not all, patients with chronic drug-resistant cluster headaches.
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Hospital legends about the relative availability (or unavailability) of services/personnel on weekends vs weekdays often lead to jocularity about the wisdom of choosing one's day to be admitted to the hospital carefully!
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There is a surge of coronary deaths following influenza epidemics, which strengthens the importance of flu vaccinations for those at risk for cardiovascular events.
