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A 12-lead ECG was obtained from a 66 year old man with heart failure. How would you interpret this ECG? Does the patient have RBBB (right bundle branch block)? Is there "a twist" to answering this question?
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Do long-acting beta agonist inhalers increase the severity of asthma? Yes, according to the results from a large meta-analysis recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Infection control professionals must do a much better job of telling their "story" if they are to thrive in a competitive health care market where every dollar is in demand, former U.S. Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson recently said in Tampa at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of healthcare quality promotion recently posted updated guidance on mumps and infection control on its web site. Key points regarding health care worker exclusion from work include the following:
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After some pointed discussion and one dissenting vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) recently endorsed recommendations to immunize health care workers with the new pertussis vaccine.
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Voluntary annual influenza immunization programs that use educational efforts and other incentives to vaccinate health care workers have been an abject failure, a leading proponent of mandatory flu shots said recently in Tampa at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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With reports of more than 100 health care workers infected with mumps during a Midwest outbreak that now exceeds 4,000 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all health care workers should have immunity to mumps and even those born before 1957 should receive one dose of vaccine.
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Two leading infection control and immunization advisory committees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have jointly endorsed new guidelines to give the new Tdap vaccine to health care workers to protect them and their patients from pertussis.
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain (DPNP) is an important pain syndrome that has not received attention commensurate with its clinically and epidemiologically compelling presence.
