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Initial ultrasound assessment of appendicitis curbs costs
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Cultivating patient activation through technology
The key to success will likely involve tailoring interventions to individual patients.
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New ASH guideline: VTE prophylaxis after major surgery
ORLANDO – The chair of VTE guidelines panel presented highlights of the latest guidelines in a special session at the annual meeting of the...
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Pulmonary embolism treatment teams adopted widely for complex disease
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Transfusion-related lung injury is on the rise in elderly patients
SAN ANTONIO – Researchers at the Food and Drug Administration examined trends in potentially life-threatening or fatal transfusion-related adverse...
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Storytelling tool can assist elderly in the ICU
SAN FRANCISCO – A graphic-based framework tool helps track best-and worst-case scenarios for elderly patients in the...
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Hospitalist comanagement reduced odds of MI, shortened vascular surgery stays
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TAVR, SAVR share same infective endocarditis risk
PARIS – “Be aware, be careful, and provide appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis, just as surgeons do in SAVR,” said Dr. Laurent Fauchier.
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FDA’s low-risk TAVR okay set to propel case volume
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Differential monocytic HLA-DR expression prognostically useful in PICU
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – European pediatric “study of the year” paves way for novel sepsis immunotherapies.