Surgery
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What Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures Should Receive Antibiotic Prophylaxis?
Prophylactic antibiotics not recommended in routine endoscopy or colonoscopy
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Early Surgery Might Not Provide Survival Benefit in All Patients with Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
Is early surgery associated with better survival in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE)?
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Hospital-Based Palliative Care Reduces Length of Stay, Charges, Invasive Procedures, ICU Deaths
Hospitalized children who received PC in the ICU had reduced lengths of stay, charges, invasive procedures, mortality rate
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Reviews of Research on Steroids and VTE Risk, Epidural Catheterization, and Beta-Blockers During Noncardiac Surgery
Also reviewed this month: advance-care planning for hospitalized elderly, impact of surgical complications, and patient-centered decision making...
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Diabetes Mellitus Does Not Increase Risk of Surgical Complications after Elective Total Knee Replacement Surgery
Does uncontrolled diabetes mellitus increase risk for post-operative complications after elective joint replacement surgery?
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Surgery’s Waterboys
Exposing the comanagement MacGuffin
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Elderly Patients & Pneumonia, Metoprolol after Vascular Surgery, and More
Elderly Pneumonia Patients after Antibiotic Switch Nathan RV, Rhew DC, Bratzler DW, et al. In-hospital observation after antibiotic switch in...
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What pre-operative cardiac evaluation of patients undergoing intermediate-risk surgery is most appropriate?
The orthopedic service asks you to evaluate a 76-year-old woman with a hip fracture
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Drug Stents and Surgery
Consider length of device use before noncardiac procedures
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Safety after Surgery
An 86-year-old female with Alzheimer’s dementia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted with...