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What Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures Should Receive Antibiotic Prophylaxis?
March 2, 2014
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
November 1, 2013
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
October 1, 2013
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
August 2, 2013
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
July 2, 2013
Does uncontrolled diabetes mellitus increase risk for post-operative complications after elective joint replacement surgery?
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Surgery’s Waterboys
February 2, 2011
Exposing the comanagement MacGuffin
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Elderly Patients & Pneumonia, Metoprolol after Vascular Surgery, and More
June 3, 2009
Elderly Pneumonia Patients after Antibiotic Switch Nathan RV, Rhew DC, Bratzler DW, et al. In-hospital observation after antibiotic switch in pneumonia: a national evaluation. Am J Med.
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What pre-operative cardiac evaluation of patients undergoing intermediate-risk surgery is most appropriate?
February 1, 2008
The orthopedic service asks you to evaluate a 76-year-old woman with a hip fracture
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Drug Stents and Surgery
November 1, 2007
Consider length of device use before noncardiac procedures
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Safety after Surgery
February 2, 2007
An 86-year-old female with Alzheimer’s dementia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted with lethargy, fever, and vomiting. After she was diagnosed with necrotizing cholecystitis, she underwent an emergent cholecystectomy.
