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MRI is more sensitive than CT for detecting acute ischemia and can detect acute hemorrhage with equal sensitivity to CT.
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Disturbance of sleep continuity, but not simple sleep deprivation, impairs pain inhibition and increases spontaneous pain.
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Surgery for a herniated lumbar disc with sciatica does not have a better long-term result than conservative therapy.
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A pilot study of human cervical disc transplantation has been shown to be surgically feasible, but requires further investigation.
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The rotigotine transdermal system (Neupro) is a safe and effective treatment for early Parkinson's Disease.
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The literature on the technical and clinical aspects of mechanical ventilation for patients with acute respiratory failure continues to expand, with nearly 50,000 citations appearing in PubMed for the topic "mechanical ventilation," and more than a thousand articles in English reporting the results of clinical trials under this heading published during the last 5 years.
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of patient-ventilator dys-synchrony in the etiology of sleep disruption, and to determine whether optimizing patient-ventilator interactions by using proportional assist ventilation (PAV) improves sleep.
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Using laboratory results from a recent 30-month period for case finding, Lamontagne and colleagues reviewed the medical records of all patients with fulminant Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) who received care in the ICUs of 2 tertiary-care hospitals in Quebec.
