April 2015 Briefing – Critical Care
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Critical Care for April 2015. This roundup includes the...
High-Value Research of 2014 Presented for Internal Medicine
Authors summarize studies published in 2014 that are relevant to practice of general internal medicine
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes Vary by Time to CPR
Increase in asystole, decrease in pVT/VF, PEA with delay in time from collapse to CPR
Lasting Mortality Benefit for MI Care at High-Performing Hospital
Survival difference of about one year between high- and low-performing hospitals
CDC: Surveillance System Can Help Reduce Health Care Injuries
Nurse assistants and nurses found to have highest injury rates among all occupations examined
Lasting Mortality Risk Increase With Hyperglycemic Crises
Among geriatric patients with new-onset diabetes, mortality risk up during six years of follow-up
Physician Compensation Up for Most Specialties
Top three earners for patient care are orthopedists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists
PAS: Hypothermia Offers No Benefit in Comatose Children
No survival benefit for survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
PAS: Rate of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Increasing
From 2004 to 2013, increase from seven to 17 cases per 1,000 admissions to NICUs
Anxiety, Depression, PTSD Common After Acute Lung Injury
More than half of survivors with any supra-threshold symptoms had co-occurrence of symptoms
