Critical Care
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Cefazolin outperforms nafcillin for staphylococcal bacteremia
Key clinical point: The time is nigh for cefazolin to replace nafcillin as first-line therapy for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus...
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ESC: Registry confirms liver dysfunction’s heart-failure importance
Key clinical point: Liver dysfunction was a statistically significant, independent predictor of 1-year mortality in acute heart-failure patients....
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Prolonged sepsis increased inpatient mortality risk
The longer patients have sepsis, the more likely they are to die while in the hospital, a retrospective, single-center study showed.
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PROPPR finds resuscitation strategy had no effect on laparotomy outcomes
Choice of damage control resuscitation – plasma-platelet-red blood cell ratio of either 1:1:1 or 1:1:2 – did not affect whether severely injured...
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HIT risk rises with obesity
Higher body mass index is strongly associated with increased rates of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
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VIDEO: Europeans adopt 1-hour ED chest pain triage
New European Society of Cardiology guidelines support 1-hour ED acute MI rule in/rule out using high-sensitivity troponin assays.
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Postexposure prophylaxis may prevent Ebola disease development
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Experimental Ebola vaccine up to 100% effective
A single dose of experimental vaccine was highly effective at preventing Ebola infection in exposed individuals in Guinea and may be effective at...
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Dicloxacillin may cut INR levels in warfarin users
The antibiotic dicloxacillin appears to markedly decrease INR levels in patients taking warfarin.
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Poor glucose control linked with longer hospital stay, higher costs
Poor glucose control was associated with longer hospitalization and higher costs among adults in a large community health system.
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SVS: Don’t let TPA delay urgent carotid interventions for mild and moderate strokes
Tissue plasminogen activator may not contraindicate urgent carotid endarterectomies or stenting.