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Warfarin dose capping avoided supratherapeutic INRs in hospitalized elderly
March 30, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Limiting the initial dose of warfarin to 2.5 mg or less for hospitalized patients aged 85 years and older led to significant reductions in supratherapeutic INRs.
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New IDSA guidelines for managing infectious diarrhea
March 30, 2018
Clinical question: What is the best management of acute or persistent infectious diarrhea in adults and children?
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Synthetic opioids drive increase in overdose deaths
March 29, 2018
Illegally manufactured fentanyl is now being combined with other drugs.
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Many VTE patients live in fear of the next event
March 29, 2018
An estimated 41% of patients who experience a VTE fear another clot often or almost all the time.
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Are higher rifampin doses for pulmonary TB more effective?
March 29, 2018
Higher rifampin doses than customarily used offer better control of TB with safety.
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Stay on top of perioperative medicine
March 29, 2018
Evidence base keeps expanding, changing.
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New consensus on inpatient opioid use
March 29, 2018
This session will focus on new recommendations to improve opioid prescribing for acute, noncancer pain in hospitalized adults.
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FDA advisors recommend lofexidine for opioid withdrawal
March 27, 2018
SILVER SPRING, MD. – A nonopioid agent for symptomatic treatment of opioid withdrawal could be another option to address the opioid epidemic.
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Major message: Most heart failure is preventable
March 26, 2018
SNOWMASS, COLO. – Targeting heart failure’s chief risk factors pays off.
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Top hospital heart failure performance translates to longer survival
March 24, 2018
ORLANDO – Get With the Guidelines data show that quality hospital care lengthens lives.
