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Wrong cuff size throws off pediatric BP by 5 mm Hg
September 7, 2019
NEW ORLEANS – The study helps inform the use of a cuff that’s too big or too small when the correct sized cuff is unavailable.
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Battling hospitalist burnout
September 6, 2019
Hospitalists are putting potential solutions to burnout into place.
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Health care–associated infection rates going down
September 6, 2019
Have targeted quality improvement measures led to an improvement in the prevalence of health care–associated infections (HAIs)?
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Use of a CDSS increases safe outpatient management of low-risk PE patients
September 5, 2019
Does the use of an electronic clinical decision support system (CDSS) increase the number of low-risk patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) discharged from the ED without increasing adverse events?
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Type of renal dysfunction affects liver cirrhosis mortality risk
September 4, 2019
Patients with acute on chronic kidney disease fared the worst.
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Predicted risk of cardiac complications varies among risk calculators
September 4, 2019
How frequently is there concordance between three recommended risk calculators in categorizing a patient as low risk for major adverse cardiac event (MACE)?
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Early extubation to noninvasive ventilation did not decrease time to liberation from ventilation
September 3, 2019
In difficult to wean patients, does a weaning protocol with noninvasive ventilation result in earlier liberation from ventilation, compared with invasive weaning (continued invasive ventilation until successful spontaneous breathing trial)?
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HFNC 12 L/min on floor cuts down on bronchiolitis ICU transfers
September 2, 2019
Switching from 6 L/min makes a difference.
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Standardized communication may prevent anticoagulant adverse drug events
September 2, 2019
What information is needed on discharge to reduce anticoagulant adverse drug events (ADEs)?
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POP AGE shakes up DAPT in elderly
September 1, 2019
PARIS – Clopidogrel hailed as P2Y12 inhibitor of choice in older patients with non-ST-elevation ACS.