NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a retrospective study of patients with severe sepsis or septic shock, those who received a single-dose of etomidate before rapid sequence intubation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s no need for people to stop taking aspirin before an immunochemical fecal occult blood test (iFOBT) because it won’t hamper the performance…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with acute migraine who find sumatriptan ineffective may have a better response to rizatriptan, according to a study reported in Cephalalgia online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In high-risk post-acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients, a J- or U-shaped association exists between blood pressure and the risk of future cardiovascular events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The off-label use of recombinant factor VIIa for hemostasis in patients without hemophilia confers only modest benefits but may increase the risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding midazolam to ketamine for emergency department sedation in adults reduces the occurrence of agitation during recovery, investigators report in the Annals of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The common practice of routinely testing patients with ischemic stroke for inherited thrombophilias can do more harm than good, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 1% of outpatient endoscopies require a subsequent visit to the emergency room for related complications, but fewer than a quarter of these…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The hope of finding a way to quickly measure carboxyhemoglobin levels in suspected carbon monoxide poisoning is still unfulfilled, it seems. The Rad-57…
Jonathan Sackier, MD, a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, discusses the steps needed to reduce the incidence of catheter related blood stream infection (CRBSI).…