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In this issue: Dementia and benzodiazepines; effectiveness of omega-3 fatty acid and Ginkgo biloba supplements; and FDA actions.
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Patients who survive admission to the ICU often are left with long-term disabilities resulting both from their presenting illness and from the care they receive while there.
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Knowledge of pediatric-specific antimicrobial susceptibility data improves prescribing selections of empiric antibiotic treatment. Providers should advocate for availability of pediatric-specific antimicrobial susceptibility data wherever practical.
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Current guidelines recommend cardiac rehabilitation using moderate exercise programs for most ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients. Also, studies have shown that the intensity of exercise is directly related to the cardioprotective effects. However, there is concern that high-intensity exercise may be dangerous in IHD patients.
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This systematic review and meta-analysis finds that the implementation of multidisciplinary tracheostomy teams leads to significant improvements in time to decannulation and in speaking valve use but not in ICU or hospital length of stay. The quality of the evidence was low.
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An investigation initiated after a clinician reported to the Tennessee Department of Health on Sept. 18, 2012, the case of a patient who developed meningitis due to Aspergillus fumigatus after having received an epidural corticosteroid injection at an ambulatory surgical center quickly identified a number of other suspect cases.1
