Traumatic brain injury due to falls may be an underlying and sometimes undetected cause of long-term cognitive, emotional, and/or functional impairment in the elderly. Medscape Medical News
Patient-controlled analgesia poses benefits and challenges to hospitalists. What PCA complications, caveats, and safety issues should be considered for pain management routines and hospital protocols? The Hospitalist
With a different mechanism of action than current options, denosumab is showing promise for breast cancer patients with aromatase-inhibitor-induced bone loss. Medscape Medical News
A study shows that a pictogram intervention is effective in reducing medication dosing errors and improving medication adherence for caregivers of children who received liquid medication. Medscape Medical News
Can a point-of-care multimarker approach combined with obtaining serial specimens offer more rapid triage of possible AMI patients in the ED compared with a single and serial troponin I-only protocol? American Journal of Clinical Pathology