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Failed extubation is more likely to occur in elderly patients with underlying chronic cardiac or pulmonary disease, and patients in whom it occurs have substantially worse clinical outcomes than those who do not require reintubation.
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Adding gabapentin to valacyclovir early in the treatment of acute herpes zoster may reduce the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia.
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While 16% of patients with candidemia had possible or probable ocular involvement, only 6 of 370 (1.6%) developed endophthalmitis.
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This report is from the ARISTOTLE trial, which was just reported at the recent European Society of Cardiology meeting in Paris.
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Perioperative cardiac events are the leading cause of surgical mortality.
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The decode data (diabetes epidemiology Collaborative Analysis of Diagnostic Criteria in Europe) indicated that all-cause mortality, as well as cardiovascular (CV) events, were better predicted by postprandial glucose (PPG) than fasting blood glucose (FPG).
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The lead II rhythm strip shown above was obtained from a woman with new-onset palpitations. How would you interpret this tracing? How certain are you of your answer? Clinically what would you do?
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The presence of any observed hostility at baseline was associated with a two-fold increased risk of incident ischemic heart disease over a 10-year period of observation.
