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		<title>Improved Survial for Trauma Patients Transported by Helicopter versus Ground Emergency Medical Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:57:10 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 50 million people every year are injured in the United States. Significant improvements have been made in surviving severe injuries because of advancements in emergency medical services including life-saving transport of these patients. A new study examines the differences in survival of transporting trauma patients by helicopter compared to ground ambulance. Catherine Dolf -]]></description>
		
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		<title>Occult Staph aureus bacteremia “important” in adult ED patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Occult Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is a “rare but important” issue in adult emergency department patients, one that deserves closer attention, a team of physicians from the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei note in a paper online March 19 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. “It’s not an uncommon experience for an -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Occult Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is a “rare but important” issue in adult emergency department patients, one that deserves closer attention, a team of physicians from the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei note in a paper online March 19 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. “It’s not an uncommon experience for an -]]></media:description>
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		<title>No long-term survival benefit seen with vasopressors in cardiac arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:20:30 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administration of epinephrine or vasopressin to patients in cardiac arrest improves short-term survival, but has no benefit over the longer term, according to a review reported in Resuscitation online March 15. Furthermore, “There are no alternative vasopressors that provide a long-term survival benefit when compared to epinephrine,” the authors report. -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administration of epinephrine or vasopressin to patients in cardiac arrest improves short-term survival, but has no benefit over the longer term, according to a review reported in Resuscitation online March 15. Furthermore, “There are no alternative vasopressors that provide a long-term survival benefit when compared to epinephrine,” the authors report. -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Ketamine-propofol combo similar to propofol alone for emergency sedation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:01:56 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of ketamine with propofol, known as ketofol, offers little advantage over propofol alone for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia, in particular with regard to respiratory depression, a Canadian team reports in the Annals of Emergency Medicine online March 9. “Using the widely accepted intervention-based Quebec Criteria, we -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of ketamine with propofol, known as ketofol, offers little advantage over propofol alone for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia, in particular with regard to respiratory depression, a Canadian team reports in the Annals of Emergency Medicine online March 9. “Using the widely accepted intervention-based Quebec Criteria, we -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Kids with asthma attacks get better faster with nurse-initiated oral steroids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:21:12 +0000</pubDate> 
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A medical directive allowing triage nurses in the emergency department to initiate oral steroid therapy in children presenting with moderate to severe acute asthma exacerbation before they are seen by a doctor is paying off at a tertiary hospital in Canada. A “before and after” study showed that the directive -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A medical directive allowing triage nurses in the emergency department to initiate oral steroid therapy in children presenting with moderate to severe acute asthma exacerbation before they are seen by a doctor is paying off at a tertiary hospital in Canada. A “before and after” study showed that the directive -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Vasopressin for cardiac arrest does not improve long-term survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a study conducted in Singapore indicate that vasopressin administered to patients in prolonged cardiac arrest does not improve survival to hospital discharge any more than adrenaline administration &#8212; although vasopressin does appear to improve survival to hospital admission. “Further studies combining vasopressin with hypothermia post-cardiac arrest can be -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a study conducted in Singapore indicate that vasopressin administered to patients in prolonged cardiac arrest does not improve survival to hospital discharge any more than adrenaline administration &#8212; although vasopressin does appear to improve survival to hospital admission. “Further studies combining vasopressin with hypothermia post-cardiac arrest can be -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Papaverine improves analgesia for renal colic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:50:50 +0000</pubDate> 
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pain associated with acute renal colic is relieved more effectively when intravenous papaverine is added to treatment with diclofenac suppository, an Iranian team reports in BJU International online February 20. “We think that this method could reduce the usage of opioids and NSAIDs in the treatment of renal colic,” the -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pain associated with acute renal colic is relieved more effectively when intravenous papaverine is added to treatment with diclofenac suppository, an Iranian team reports in BJU International online February 20. “We think that this method could reduce the usage of opioids and NSAIDs in the treatment of renal colic,” the -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Home oxygen supplementation reduces admissions for bronchiolitis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:37:23 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants seen in the emergency department with uncomplicated bronchiolitis can be safely managed with oxygen therapy at home, a Colorado team reports in Pediatrics online February 13. “This study shows that home oxygen is a safe and effective way to decrease hospital admissions in a select group of patients,” conclude -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants seen in the emergency department with uncomplicated bronchiolitis can be safely managed with oxygen therapy at home, a Colorado team reports in Pediatrics online February 13. “This study shows that home oxygen is a safe and effective way to decrease hospital admissions in a select group of patients,” conclude -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Morphine-ketamine combo effective for trauma analgesia in field</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:16:48 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering ketamine after morphine is more effective than continuing morphine only for reducing pain in adults who have experienced significant out-of-hospital trauma, an Australian team reports in the Annals of Emergency Medicine online January 16. “Furthermore, adverse events were uncommon in this nonphysician EMS setting,” the authors point out. Dr. -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering ketamine after morphine is more effective than continuing morphine only for reducing pain in adults who have experienced significant out-of-hospital trauma, an Australian team reports in the Annals of Emergency Medicine online January 16. “Furthermore, adverse events were uncommon in this nonphysician EMS setting,” the authors point out. Dr. -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Serial change in troponin I aids in early diagnosis of MI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:26:17 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients presenting with chest pain, troponin I levels measured on admission and at 3 hours reliably rule out or rule in acute MI &#8212; whether measured with a high sensitivity assay or a standard contemporary assay, a German team reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association for -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients presenting with chest pain, troponin I levels measured on admission and at 3 hours reliably rule out or rule in acute MI &#8212; whether measured with a high sensitivity assay or a standard contemporary assay, a German team reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association for -]]></media:description>
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