NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Propofol may be preferable to ketamine for procedural sedation in the emergency department, researchers conclude in a study published online June 2 in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than half of elderly patients who come out of the hospital after pneumonia either die within a year or get readmitted for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Balloon angioplasty, drug-eluting stents, and bare metal stents appear to be equally effective at reducing death or myocardial infarction (MI) over a year’s…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), adding a later-generation fluoroquinolone to the treatment regimen may improve outcomes, even when drug-susceptibility testing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When used to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) following cesarean section, a single dose of carbetocin (Duratocin, Pabal) is less likely than oxytocin (Sintocinon)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children receiving the bisphosphonate pamidronate for severe bone demineralization have a prolonged corrected QT interval (QTc), French researchers report online May 25th in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preprocedural use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPIs) in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after acute myocardial infarction may improve clinical outcomes, according to…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, for which medical therapy is totally inadequate and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Selective head cooling combined with mild systemic hypothermia has a significant brain-protective effect in babies with neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), researchers in China…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It doesn’t matter whether or not EMTs do a few minutes’ CPR before defibrillation of cardiac-arrest patients, researchers conclude in a meta-analysis that…