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Guidance defines vaping-related respiratory syndrome
ORLANDO – The guidance is designed to help critical care professionals efficiently identify those individuals at high risk of respiratory failure...
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Medicare beneficiaries get few home health visits after ICU stay
ORLANDO – The beneficiaries received an average of less than one visit per week in the month after ICU discharge, while a third received no visits...
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Opioid use disorder up in sepsis hospitalizations
ORLANDO – “While we don’t necessarily screen every sepsis patient for endocarditis, if it’s an opioid use disorder patient – particularly one with...
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Vitamin E acetate found in more vapers’ lung fluid
Researchers identified vitamin E acetate in the bronchoalveolar-lavage fluid of additional patients with electronic-cigarette, or vaping, product...
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Drop in flu activity suggests season may have peaked
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The evolution of social media and visual abstracts in hospital medicine
Medical journals are looking for novel ways to engage their audiences and create communities.
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Critical care admissions up for pediatric opioid poisonings
ORLANDO – Attempted suicide has represented an increasingly large proportion of these severe poisonings.
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When is a troponin elevation an acute myocardial infarction?
It is very important to classify the etiology of a troponin elevation and treat accordingly.
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Infection with 2019 novel coronavirus extends to infants
Nine infants with at least one infected family member have tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus.
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As Novel Coronavirus outbreak evolves, critical care providers need to be prepared