Gas Mix-Up Causes Newborn Death
In mid-July, a baby born by cesarean section died about one hour later due to the administration...
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Emergency Medicine
Shocker: Hospitalists’ “Unprofessional” Behavior Is Normal
By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...
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2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
New recommendations published online July 14 in Clinical Infectious Diseases replace the previous...
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The Generational Differences in Healthcare Technology
For decades marketers have tailored their messages and delivery tactics based on the target...
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Updated Stroke Prevention Guidelines
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) have updated guidelines...
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ED Patient Views on Pain Care
Pain continues to be one of the top reasons for patients seeking care at EDs, but little is known...
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Examining Emergency Department Returns for Kidney Stones
According to published estimates, kidney stones afflict nearly one in 11 people in the United...
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Post-Op Weekend Admissions & Discharges
Hospital readmission is associated with high morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditures and...
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Heroes in Medicine: Daniel R. Lattanzi, MD
Congratulations to Daniel R. Lattanzi, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for...
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Highlights from CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2015
Since the earliest year of data collection, the prevalence of most health-risk behaviors has...
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Antibiotic Resistance, Surgery, & Chemotherapy
The CDC estimates that at least 2 million people become infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria...
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Benzodiazepine Prescribing in Older Adults
Benzodiazepines can effectively treat anxiety, agitation, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal, but...
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Enhancing ED Care for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
According to current estimates, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) affects as many as 10% of...
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Improving ED Care for LGBT Patients
As the patient census has become increasingly diverse, it has become more challenging for EDs to...
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A Guide for Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic diseases in...
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Deadly, drug-resistant yeast infection spreading around the world
The C. auris yeast causes bloodstream infections, wound infections, and otitis (ear infections)....
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Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be detrimental
An issue with inflated numbers like 251,000 and 440,000 is that they are repeated by naïve...
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Experimental antibiotic treats deadly MRSA infection
A new experimental antibiotic successfully treats the deadly MRSA infection and restores the...
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Use of glucocorticoids is associated with increased risk of serious bacterial blood infection
The risk of life-threatening blood infections by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is more than...
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Test holds potential to diagnose myriad conditions with drop of blood
This is the first evidence that it’s possible to develop blood tests for any infectious...
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