Critical Care
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VIDEO: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery
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Depression at least five times more common than PTSD after critical illness
Major finding: At 3 months and 12 months after discharge, 37% and 33% of patients reported at least mild depression while only 7% reported...
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VIDEO: Rethink the VTE prophylaxis mantra
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Lung transplants in HIV-positive gaining momentum
Major finding: Mild acute rejection occurred in two HIV-positive patients who were transplanted for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; they have...
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VIDEO: Study highlights progress, challenges in nosocomial infections
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Most health care–associated infections aren’t device associated
Major finding: An estimated 648,000 inpatients at U.S. acute care hospitals had approximately 721,800 health care–associated infections in 2011,...
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Rising to the challenge of glucose control before and after surgery
Major finding: Patients with diabetes and thyroid disorder require special handling before, during, and after surgery.Data source: A review of...
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Sepsis less common, less deadly in pregnancy
Major finding: The odds of death in women with severe sepsis were 43% lower during pregnancy, compared with nonpregnant women.Data source: A...
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Cloud-based network reduces repeat trauma imaging
Major finding: The number of patients who underwent repeat imaging declined from 62% to 47% in the 6 months after the network was implemented (P...
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Injury cause alone insufficient to justify CT scanning in children
Major finding: A Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of less than 14 (original scale; less than 15 on revised scale) was the only clinically significant...