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Using laboratory results from a recent 30-month period for case finding, Lamontagne and colleagues reviewed the medical records of all patients with fulminant Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) who received care in the ICUs of 2 tertiary-care hospitals in Quebec.
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In a pilot study, ten women with liver predominant metastatic breast cancer were treated with intra-hepatic arterial infusion of paclitaxel (200 mg/m2 over 24 hours, monthly).
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A woman in therapy following knee replacement surgery was using a continuous passive motion machine to aid in strengthening her knee without her muscles being used. She fell asleep while using the machine, and it subsequently tipped over and twisted her knee.
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A hospital that restricted the use of alcohol-based skin preps (ABSPs) in operating rooms due to concerns about surgical fires saw infection rates flame up in very short order.
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Abdominal pain in female patients can pose a diagnostic challenge to emergency physicians. There are a number of emergent clinical conditions that must be recognized in a timely fashion to reduce morbidity and mortality in these patients.
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Although the addition of PCI to optimal medical therapy in patients with chronic stable CHD reduced the prevalence of angina, it did not reduce the long-term rates of death, nonfatal myocardial infarctions and hospitalizations for acute coronary syndromes.
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The FDA has approved the first of a new class of antibiotics for the topical treatment of impetigo. Retapamulin belongs to a class of agents called pleuromutilins.
