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Effective patient communication is a critical component to ICU patient care and to family member understanding of a critical illness.
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Clinicians generally believe that mechanical ventilation rests and restores the respiratory muscles in acute respiratory failure.
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Although protocol-driven sedation and analgesia management has been shown to improve patient outcomes, adherence to these guidelines is often poor.
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In This Issue: Shingles vaccine added to CDC list of vaccines for adults 60 and older; CDC recommends Tdap for postpartum women; new study suggests sequential therapy with antibiotics for H. pylori may be more effective than standard therapy; FDA Actions.
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Mummies are fascinating. they represent a special snapshot of our human past when contemporaries respected our human forms enough to try to preserve them indefinitely.
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Threats to laboratory workers come in many varieties, ranging from earthquakes to fires. But one threat that has acquired enhanced visibility in this age of bioterrorism is the threat of a laboratory-acquired infection.
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Pneumococcal meningitis remains a deadly disease, with a case fatality rate among adults that is still above 20%, with also permanent neurological sequelae in a substantial minority of survivors.
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In the health care setting, transmission of varicella zoster virus (VZV) from dermatomal herpes zoster lesions is generally felt to be insignificant, as long as the lesions are kept covered.
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