Critical Care
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Endovascular thrombectomy vs tPA: better function, same mortality
Key clinical point: Endovascular mechanical thrombectomy yielded better function and angiographic revascularization but similar mortality and rate...
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Impact of health care–associated meningitis or ventriculitis spotlighted
Health care–associated meningitis or ventriculitis continues to occur despite well established preventive methods and is associated with...
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ACS: No pull-out pneumothorax with ‘party balloon Valsalva’
It’s easier to explain, too.
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Experts debate infection control merits of ‘bare beneath the elbows’
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ACS: Don’t shy away from venovenous ECMO for trauma lung failure
Key clinical point: Venovenous ECMO can be life saving when trauma patients go into respiratory failure. Major finding: Thirty-two patients had...
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Ebola virus may persist in semen 9 months after symptom onset
Male Ebola virus disease survivors may have viable Ebola virus RNA in their semen 9 months after the onset of symptoms.
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Noninvasive ventilation no better than oxygen alone in immunocompromised ICU patients
Key clinical point: Noninvasive ventilation, compared with oxygen therapy alone, did not reduce 28-day mortality among immunocompromised patients...
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Study tracks long-term mortality risk in MRSA bacteremia patients
Key clinical point: Longer treatment for MRSA infection was linked to lower mortality risk. Major finding: The mortality rate at 1 year was 17.8...
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Ebola virus in semen raises possibility of sexual transmission
The persistence and potential sexual transmission of the Ebola virus has implications for management of Ebola virus disease survivors but also...
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HHS funds development of experimental Ebola drug
BARDA has promised to pay up to $38 million for the development and manufacturing of a new experimental drug for treating the Ebola virus disease...
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ICU care improves survival without raising costs
Compared with care on a general hospital ward, ICU care improved survival without raising costs significantly in a study of more than 1 million...