Critical Care
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Study tracks long-term mortality risk in MRSA bacteremia patients
Key clinical point: Longer treatment for MRSA infection was linked to lower mortality risk. Major finding: The mortality rate at 1 year was 17.8...
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Ebola virus in semen raises possibility of sexual transmission
The persistence and potential sexual transmission of the Ebola virus has implications for management of Ebola virus disease survivors but also...
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HHS funds development of experimental Ebola drug
BARDA has promised to pay up to $38 million for the development and manufacturing of a new experimental drug for treating the Ebola virus disease...
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ICU care improves survival without raising costs
Compared with care on a general hospital ward, ICU care improved survival without raising costs significantly in a study of more than 1 million...
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Cefazolin outperforms nafcillin for staphylococcal bacteremia
Key clinical point: The time is nigh for cefazolin to replace nafcillin as first-line therapy for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus...
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ESC: Registry confirms liver dysfunction’s heart-failure importance
Key clinical point: Liver dysfunction was a statistically significant, independent predictor of 1-year mortality in acute heart-failure patients....
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Prolonged sepsis increased inpatient mortality risk
The longer patients have sepsis, the more likely they are to die while in the hospital, a retrospective, single-center study showed.
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PROPPR finds resuscitation strategy had no effect on laparotomy outcomes
Choice of damage control resuscitation – plasma-platelet-red blood cell ratio of either 1:1:1 or 1:1:2 – did not affect whether severely injured...
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HIT risk rises with obesity
Higher body mass index is strongly associated with increased rates of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
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VIDEO: Europeans adopt 1-hour ED chest pain triage
New European Society of Cardiology guidelines support 1-hour ED acute MI rule in/rule out using high-sensitivity troponin assays.