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- Demographics of long-term ventilator-dependent patients outside the intensive care unit
The ICU is the traditional setting for long-term ventilator care, but the demand for more cost-effective use of ICU beds has hospitals looking at other settings.
- Atrial natriuretic factor and catecholamine levels during exercise in patients with and without coronary artery disease
In coronary artery disease, exercise-induced myocardial ischemia does not produce further release of ANF, suggesting that the cause of ANF release is not ischemia itself, but left ventricular dysfunction leading to increases in intracardiac pressures.
- Perioperative blood transfusion and survival of breast cancer patients after modified radical mastectomy
Does perioperative blood transfusion compromise longterm survival in cancer patients? Although a firm link is not yet established, early findings and current knowledge of transfusion-associated risks advise caution.
- Lytic lesion of the knee in a 27-year-old man
Right knee pain and lateral knee fullness for 3 months and chronic right ankle pain for 7 months were the presenting symptoms.
- Severity of illness: APACHE II analysis of an ICU population
Reporting ICU outcome using APACHE II computer program criteria allows more meaningful comparisons of ICU outcome data, and enables the standardization of quality assurance programs.
- Managing the hypertensive patient: reasonable goals
Any approach to treating hypertension should be based on multiple blood pressure readings to establish the diagnosis, aggressive nondrug therapy, and use of low doses when initiating drug therapy.