A national panel of pain management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published the first comprehensive, evidence-based clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. The long-awaited guideline appears in the current issue of The [...]
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità (02/2009): Riabilitazione e valutazione dei pazienti mielolesi
Laurie Barclay, MD Medscape Medical News 2009. © 2009 Medscape Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP), along with currently used laboratory tests, may facilitate the treatment of infants younger than 3 months seen in emergency departments for fever of unknown origin, according to the results of a retrospective study reported in the January 21 Online [...]
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Martha Kerr Medscape Medical News 2009. © 2009 Medscape More than one third of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit, Michigan, were seropositive for cytomegalovirus (CMV), according to a study presented here at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 38th Critical Care Congress.
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Il ricorrente chiede il risarcimento del danno psicofisico subito per aver fornito prestazioni lavorative anche nel giorno destinato al riposo settimanale senza avere successivamente fruito, per esigenze di servizio, del riposo compensativo. In relazione a tali evenienze l’articolo 22 del CCNL 5 dicembre 1996, riguardante i dirigenti medici, statuisce il divieto di monetizzazione. Ritiene il [...]
Martha Kerr Medscape Medical News 2009. © 2009 Medscape Mortality rates are significantly higher when a benzodiazepine is the sedating agent used in a mechanically ventilated patient, and hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay is more than a day longer, investigators at the University of Utah told attendees of the Society of [...]
Martha Kerr Medscape Medical News 2009. © 2009 Medscape Elevated levels of troponin are associated with a nearly 50% increase in mortality risk among severely ill noncardiac patients, and one-fifth of noncardiac patients in medical intensive care units (ICUs) have high troponin levels.
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità (12/2008): Il Paziente Disfagico – Manuale per i Familiari e Caregiver
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Excessive sensitivity apparently plays a role in cluster headaches, and blocking the hypersensitive muscle trigger points with local anesthetic may be beneficial in treating the condition, according to results published in the journal Head & Face Medicine.
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Coloro che hanno contratto l’epatite a seguito della somministrazione di emoderivati hanno diritto allo stesso indennizzo riconosciuto a coloro che hanno subito danni irreversibili in seguito a un vaccino o a una trasfusione di sangue. La sentenza n. 28 del 2009 dichiara illegittimo l’articolo 1 comma 3 della legge n. 210 del 1992 nella parte [...]
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Margaret A. Pisani, MD, MPH; Terrence E. Murphy, PhD et al. Crit Care Med. 2009;37(1):177-183. ©2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins – Posted 01/28/2009 Delirium is an acute disorder of attention and cognition with a reported prevalence of 78%-87% among older intensive care unit (ICU) patients.[1-5] Delirium leads to poor outcomes, including increased morbidity, mortality, nursing [...]
Reuters Health Information 2009. © 2009 Reuters Ltd. Trauma patients who are transfused with more than 5 units of packed red blood cells (PRBCs) within 24 hours of admission are at increased risk for developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), new research shows.
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Martha Kerr Medscape Medical News 2009. © 2009 Medscape Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) may have a higher risk for upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) than for lower-extremity DVT, yet the focus tends to be only on the legs, according to a study presented here at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 38th [...]
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Martha Kerr Medscape Medical News 2009. © 2009 Medscape Current use of moderate to high doses of statins for patients hospitalized with sepsis was associated with a mortality risk reduction of more than 20%, compared with patients not taking statins, investigators reported here at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 38th Critical Care Congress.
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AASLD (08/2009): Vascular Disorders of the Liver AASLD (08/2009): Prevention and Management of Gastroesophageal Varices and Variceal Hemorrhage in Cirrhosis AASLD (08/2009): Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma AASLD (08/2009): Liver Biopsy AASLD (08/2009): Diagnosis and Treatment of Wilson Disease AASLD (08/2009): Chronic Hepatitis B AASLD (08/2009): Management of Adult Patients with Ascites Due to Cirrhosis AASLD [...]
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