While stroke is most often a result of progressive atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, occurring with increasing frequency as the population ages, there are less common causes of stroke that mainly affect younger populations.
Many staff emergency physicians and resident physicians interact with pharmaceutical representatives on a regular basis. It seems a fairly harmless interaction, with the emergency physician then returning to the daily grind in their busy emergency department.
Examination of patient outcomes beyond survival has become an important focus of critical care research in the last decade.
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Previous trials have demonstrated that administration of recombinant erythropoietin to critically ill patients decreases the need for red blood cell transfusions and leads to higher hemoglobin values.
