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    Critical Care Alert

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    March 1, 2008

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    Critical Care Alert 2008-03-01

    Effects of Eliminating Daily Chest X-Rays in the ICU

    A prospective observational study was conducted to assess diagnostic and therapeutic efficacies of a daily routine CXR and to evaluate the impact of discontinuing this practice. The setting was a 10-bed mixed medical-surgical ICU of a non-academic teaching hospital in The Netherlands. Read More

    Special Feature: The Role of Weaning Parameters in 2008

    Most critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation, and, according to one large survey, the weaning process occupies about 40% of the time that patients spend connected to the ventilator. Read More

    Arterial Line Insertions in the ICU: To Gown or Not To Gown?

    Most of the attention on catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSI) in the ICU focuses on central venous catheters (CVC), a bias that likely derives, in part, from the 2002 Centers for Disease Control guidelines which stipulate that arterial catheters (AC) have "low infection rates—rarely associated with bloodstream infections. Read More

    Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement

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    Pharmacology Watch: FDA Heightens Warnings on Chantix

    n this issue: Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions. Read More
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    Effects of Eliminating Daily Chest X-Rays in the ICU

    Special Feature: The Role of Weaning Parameters in 2008

    Arterial Line Insertions in the ICU: To Gown or Not To Gown?

    Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement

    Pharmacology Watch: FDA Heightens Warnings on Chantix

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