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Given its lack of benefit, possible harms, and expense, magnesium sulfate should not be used for tocolysis.
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RFA should be considered a first-line therapy even after the first episode of symptomatic AFL. There is a better long-term success rate, the same risk of subsequent AF, and fewer secondary effects.
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Among adults diagnosed with heart failure who had no prior statin use, incident statin use was independently associated with lower risks of death and hospitalization among patients with or without coronary heart disease.
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A meta-analysis of 10 studies of heparin used either for prophylaxis or for treatment suggests that venous thromboembolism related to heparin-induced thrombocytopenia occurs frequently in patients previously treated with unfractionated heparin, but uncommonly in those on low molecular weight heparin.
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The stroke and death rates at one and 6 months were lower in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (> 60%) treated with endarterectomy versus stenting.
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New Orleans-area hospices continue to struggle more than a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast area.
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California has always been a state with high managed care penetration, but home health agencies throughout the country are seeing the need to understand how to negotiate managed care contracts as managed care organizations become more predominant.
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The initial meeting with families and patients can lay the groundwork for an end-of-life experience that is rewarding to all involved, or it can build obstacles to a hospice referral and obstruct true understanding between the family, physician, and hospice staff.
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When staff at the Hospice of Chattanooga in Tennessee, provide wound care, they work to help the patient recover a sense of wholeness.
