Clopidogrel and aspirin for TIA
A large Chinese trial compared aspirin alone with combination aspirin / clopidogrel in patients who had had a TIA in […]
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Family presence during resuscitation
Families allowed to be present during attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation had improved psychological outcomes at ninety days. Adult family members of […]
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Restricting transfusion in upper GI bleeding
Improved outcomes and reduced complications were associated with a restrictive transfusion strategy in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Note that […]
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Pleurodesis for spontaneous pneumothorax?
A Taiwanese study demonstrated a lower recurrence rate when primary spontaneous pneumothoraces requiring drainage received pleurodesis using minocycline(1). However, significantly […]
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5 days of steroids for COPD exacerbation
A randomised trial showed 5 days of oral steroid therapy (40 mg prednisone) was non-inferior to 14 days’ duration in […]
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Potential new therapy for acute heart failure
Interesting new drug to know about: Serelaxin, recombinant human relaxin-2. It’s hard to assess the clinical significance of the statistically […]
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TracMan results
The TracMan trial – a multicentre randomised trial of early vs late tracheostomy in ICU patients – has been published, […]
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Endovascular stroke treatment
Two randomised controlled trials have been published which compare endovascular stroke treatments with intravenous tPA. Both the American Interventional Management […]
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Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns
More evidence that cooling the hypoxic neonatal brain improves outcomes…. OBJECTIVE Mild hypothermia after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reduces neurologic […]