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CPAP treatment lowered blood pressure and improved metabolic abnormalities in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
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Scenario: Interpret the ECG shown above, obtained from an older woman on multiple drugs who presented to the emergency department with chest pain and an exacerbation of her chronic heart failure. What is the rhythm? Why so much ST depression? Clinically, what would you do?
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The FDA has approved a new formulation of oxymorphone extended-release tablets that is designed to be crush-resistant in order to reduce the potential for diversion and abuse.
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This study was a survey of all the physicians and nurses working in 82 adult ICUs on a particular day in 2010. It was conducted by a study group of the Ethics Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the ICUs involved were in nine European countries plus Israel.
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Lemyze and colleagues studied a simple bedside procedure for detecting expiratory airflow obstruction in intubated, mechanically ventilated patients.
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To examine the association between being placed in contact isolation and delirium, Day and colleagues at the University of Maryland Medical Center reviewed administrative data on all patients admitted during a 2-year period ending in 2009.
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In this issue: New treatment for TB; safety of dabigatran; quality of antidepressants; systolic hypertension treatment; and FDA actions.
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Until now, getting a handle on the utilization and outcomes of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in the management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) in the United States has been hampered by the absence of a nationwide database on this important condition.
