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If a patient comes to your ED with a pre-existing infection that goes unnoticed, the insurer likely will to refuse to pay for treatment because it will presume wrongly that the condition was acquired in the hospital.
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(Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on prevention of hospital-acquired infections in the ED. This month, we give strategies to improve compliance with hand hygiene, tips for cleaning the equipment you use and tell you how to determine if your patient has arrived at the ED with an infection. Last month, we covered avoiding infections when invasive procedures are performed, reducing the risk of infection with peripheral IV insertion, using alternatives to invasive procedures, giving central-line education to ED nurses, and decreasing the use of central lines and urinary catheters.)
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If your patient tells you he's had asthma since he was a teenager, don't assume that he must already know how to self-manage his condition.
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More than 100,000 prosthetic heart valves are implanted each year in North America, and another 300,000 are done annually worldwide.
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Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions.
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Dementia in Parkinson's disease is associated with a non-tremor-predominant phenotype, and the MAPT H1/H1 genotype. A rapidly progressing subtype without dementia has been identified, associated with another non-motor feature, depression.
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Glatiramer acetate significantly delayed the onset of clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) in patients having a clinically isolated event and brain lesions consistent with MS.
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Two studies have identified a novel inclusion found in a subset of FTLD brains and categorize the clinical entity of the behavioral variant of FTLD, based on anatomical patterns.