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No link seen between ondansetron and tachyarrhythmias in healthy children
Top clinical point: The study findings support cardiac monitoring for children with cardiac diagnoses who are receiving ondansetron.
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Don’t miss these features of dermatomyositis
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Antimicrobial prophylaxis halves UTI risk in pediatric vesicoureteral reflux
Major finding: Over 2 years, 13% of children with vesicoureteral reflux who received antimicrobial prophylaxis developed a recurrent febrile or...
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Emergency thrombolysis by presumed consent preferred in majority of older adults
Key clinical point: Presumption of consent during a stroke is a "pragmatic ethical and legal" convention.Major finding: 78.1% of older adults...
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Telemedicine gives small hospitals the biggest boost in rTPA use for stroke
Major finding: Telemedicine programs increased rTPA usage by up to 13% during the year after implementation.Data source: The retrospective study...
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HS cardiac troponin T shows MI rule-out potential
Major finding: Undetectable cardiac troponin T and no ECG change ruled out MI in emergency chest-pain patients with 99.8% accuracy.Data source:...
Practice Economics
E&M codes could soon require more rigor
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Heparin surpasses bivalirudin in STEMI primary PCI
Major finding: STEMI patients stented on unfractionated heparin had a 6% 28-day MACE rate, vs. a 9% rate on bivalirudin.Data source: The HEAT-PPCI...
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Don’t discount suicide attempts in borderline patients
Major finding: Following suicide attempts, patients with borderline personality features scored a mean of 14.51 points and nonborderline patients...
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A fib–associated stroke jumped 42% in 2000s
Major finding: During 2003-2010, annual stroke hospitalizations in U.S. atrial fibrillation patients rose from 71,000 to 101,000, a 42% increase....