Adult patients with severe but potentially reversible respiratory failure had an increased survival rate without severe disability after using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Medscape Medical News
Pressure ulcer prevention has been an ongoing concern, but new CMS reimbursement policies have changed reimbursement, necessitating immediate interdisciplinary improvements. Wounds
New research shows that prophylactic indomethacin reduces the risk for serious pulmonary hemorrhage in extremely low birth weight infants, a benefit that is most pronounced in the first week of life. Reuters Health Information
A review of the evidence strongly supports routine utilization of statins as adjuvant pharmacological therapy before percutaneous coronary revascularization. Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease
Clinicians can balance the obligation to be truthful to the patient with the family’s belief that disclosing such information would be harmful, and have a win–win solution for all. Medscape Medical News
Increases in overdoses were reported among illicit drug users in 6 states in 2006. Nonpharmaceutical fentanyl (NPF) was the source of some overdoses. How many NPF-related deaths occurred from 2005-07? Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
