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In older women and men, all low-trauma fractures were associated with increased mortality risk for at least 5 years. Subsequent fracture increased that risk.
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Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor agonist approved by the FDA for the treatment of thrombocytopenia.
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The women's health initiative (WHI) provided convincing evidence that the use of estrogen plus progesterone (E+P) in postmenopausal women is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
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The ECG shown above was a baseline tracing obtained during the initial visit with a new primary care provider. How would you interpret the tracing? What do you suspect happened in the past?
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This is the first study documenting that a PPI compromises the mucosal barrier function of the upper GI tract.
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The use of normal saline instillation with suctioning has been debated over the years due to uncertainty about the benefits of use. Caruso and colleagues assessed the use of the instillation of 8 mL of saline before tracheal suctioning and compared VAP rates among control and treatment patients receiving mechanical ventilation for > 72 hours who had an orotracheal or tracheo-tomy tube.
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Hough et al set out to determine incidence and outcomes of early neuromyopathy in patients with persistent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and to evaluate the association of neuromyopathy with the use of methylprednisolone in this population.
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Patman and associates at the Lung Institute of Western Australia in Perth undertook this study to determine whether the routine, intensive administration of chest physiotherapy (PT) to mechanically ventilated patients with severe acute brain injury would prevent the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or speed its resolution once it was present.
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