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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants seen in the emergency department with bronchiolitis have greater improvements over 4 hours when they receive helium-oxygen therapy rather than pure oxygen,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Delays in treatment may favor onsite fibrinolytic therapy over transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in some patients who present with ST-segment-elevation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For adult patients seen in the emergency department with acute bone fracture, a sublingual dose of buprenorphine is as effective as intravenous morphine…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rizatriptan is effective for acute migraine in patients taking topiramate for migraine prophylaxis, and few experience adverse effects, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with sore throat, signs and symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis, either alone or in combination, cannot be used to definitively diagnose or…