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SAN ANTONIO – More of the children who present to the pediatric emergency department with asthma exacerbation received recommended care when the staff had instituted a nurse-initiated, evidence-based, standardized order set, according to Dr. Moira E. Breslin. Specifically, the percentage of... »
Registry studies identify emergency intubation risk factors
Adverse events during emergency department airway intubation include airway trauma, esophageal intubation, aspiration, hypoxemia, and cardiac arrest. To examine some of the risk factors associated with adverse intubation outcomes, two recently reported database studies focused on the number of... » There’s been little relief from the flu in the past week, with influenza activity remaining elevated in most parts of the United States.
Forty-seven states reported widespread influenza activity during the week of Dec. 30-Jan. 5, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control... » DENVER – A four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate bettered plasma for urgent reversal of warfarin and other vitamin K antagonists in patients experiencing major bleeding.
Marketed as Beriplex, the product had a higher rate of INR reversal than did plasma at 30 minutes after the start of... » DENVER – If you presume that a patient who comes to the emergency department with acute dyspnea primarily has a pulmonary cause, you’ll almost always be right. Those few other cases, though, take a bit of detective work.
In the approximately 5% of cases in which dyspnea is not easily referable to... »
Flu activity rages on around the country
Beriplex outperforms plasma for rapid warfarin reversal
Acute Dyspnea: Try Physiologic Approach in Differential Diagnosis
SAN ANTONIO – More of the children who present to the pediatric emergency department with asthma exacerbation received recommended care when the staff had instituted a nurse-initiated, evidence-based, standardized order set,... »
Registry studies identify emergency intubation risk factors
Adverse events during emergency department airway intubation include airway trauma, esophageal intubation, aspiration, hypoxemia, and cardiac arrest. To examine some of the risk factors associated with adverse intubation... »
Beriplex outperforms plasma for rapid warfarin reversalDENVER – A four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate bettered plasma for urgent reversal of warfarin and other vitamin K antagonists in patients experiencing major bleeding. Marketed as Beriplex, the product had a higher... »
People are clumsy, especially with their medications. How many times have we met patients who dropped their brand-new bottle of Xanax down the sink? Or sat in a puddle at the bus stop and dissolved all their Percocets? It’s... »
Private health plans’ use of cost sharing for prescription drugs – the practice of shifting more of the expense of medications onto the patient – apparently has led parents of children with asthma to reduce their use of... »