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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 63-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, heart failure, and atypical chest pain. Would you say there is typical LBBB (left bundle branch block)? Would you interpret this tracing as suggestive of LVH (left ventricular hypertrophy)? of acute MI (myocardial infarction)?
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The FDA has approved vardenafil (LevitraBayer and GlaxoSmithKline) for
the treatment of erectile dysfunction in men. Vardenafil joins
sildenafil (Viagra) as the only 2 drugs approved for this indication in
this country.
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Schoffs and colleagues looked at the occurrence of hip fracture (excluding pathologic fractures and fractures in prosthetic hips) from 1991 to 1999 and their relationship to thiazide diuretics and chlorthalidone, which is not strictly a thiazide, but behaves like one.
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In this sophisticated analysis of ECG-LVH regression, more than 9000 hypertensive patients were randomized to losartan or atenolol therapy, treated to target blood pressure levels, and followed for up to 5 years.
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For patients who required > 48 hours of mechanical ventilation, daily routine chest radiographs and films obtained based on clinical indications produced similar outcomes.
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Health care workers are expected to practice without error, an ideal that in reality does not occur. In fact, errors occur more frequently that we would prefer.
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Two severely ill patients in the emergency department of your hospital need admission to intensive care, but only one bed is available. Who gets admitted first?
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A generic form of paroxetine (PaxilGlaxoSmithKline) will soon be on the market. The drug marks the second SSRI antidepressant to go generic after fluoxetine (Prozac) last year.
