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The body of law that deals with end-of-life decision making is hardly settled law. Because the welfare of citizens is largely the concern of individual states, judicial decisions regarding end-of-life issues in health care vary among the states.
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Whenever a resident is sued in a malpractice case, the plaintiff's counsel can label that doctor as a student whose training is incomplete.
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Writing prescriptions for colleagues or their family members is done commonly by some ED physicians, but this carries significant legal risks.
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Missed diagnoses in the ED are typically the result of multiple breakdowns in the diagnostic process, with several contributing factors, according to a new study.
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The appropriate management of pain by medical professionals is becoming an increasingly popular topic of discussion and litigation.
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Trauma surgeons at 21 institutions participated in this retrospective study of inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) placement and follow-up. A total of 599 IVCFs were placed at the 21 hospitals during the study year, 226 (0.8% of all admissions) at the 7 high-volume hospitals (> 2000 trauma cases admitted), and 373 (2% of all admissions, P = 0.009) at the 14 low-volume institutions.
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Inhaled bronchodilators are the cornerstone of managing acute airway obstruction, and their use in intubated, mechanically ventilated patients with asthma and COPD is a standard of care.
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Many of the recent advances in intensive care have been the product of large clinical trials. Over the years, randomized studies have demonstrated agents and modalities that impact survival of our sickest patients.
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Building on the results of previous pilot studies from their laboratory and a meta-analysis that showed a tendency toward improved mortality in critically-ill patients following selenium administration, Angstwurm and colleagues used a randomized, placebo-controlled multi-center trial to determine whether intravenous administration of selenium could improve outcomes in severe sepsis and septic shock.
