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| Are you giving older MI patients poor care? Change your practice now |
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| If a 70-year-old man had a syncopal episode but reported he was undergoing radiation therapy, would you still suspect an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? If a 90-year-old woman had several comorbidities, would you still consider all treatment options regardless of her age? | |
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| BioCryst Out-Licenses BCX-4208 To Roche In Potential $560M Deal |
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| The holiday season is coming early to BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc., which could earn more than half a billion dollars per terms of a just-announced licensing deal with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. | |
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| Drug-induced diseases have become an increasing problem |
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| Much has been written about drugs and their adverse effects (AEs). But two pharmacists saw the need for a central source of information for an important subset of adverse effects: drug-induced diseases. | |
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| Effective error reporting: Quality leaders share cutting-edge strategies |
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| Are dangerous errors going undetected at your organization? Or are some types of errors being carefully tracked, but without action taken to prevent similar mistakes? | |
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| Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Menactra Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine |
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| As of October 4, 2005, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received five reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome after receipt of Menactra® vaccination. Although the rate of Guillain-Barré after vaccination is similar to what might be expected by chance alone, the timing of the onset of symptoms within 2 to 5 weeks after vaccination prompted the dispatch to alert physicians to report any additional cases. | |
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| Risen from the dead: Can 1918 virus help defeat bird flu threat? |
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| In a high-containment laboratory along Clifton Road in Atlanta last summer, a mouse became the first living thing to inhale the 1918 pandemic influenza virus since it killed millions of people and vanished from the face of the earth. Predictably, it died. | |
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| Take an advocacy role in preventing medical errors in your hospital |
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| As patient advocates, case managers can play an important role in preventing errors or addressing any event or delay in care that could result in serious complications for the patient, says Hussein Tahan, DNSc, RN, CNA, commissioner for the Commission on Case Manager Certification and immediate past chair for the Commission on Case Manager Certification. | |
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| TCT data shows that carotid artery stenting is sustainable |
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| Long-term findings released at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) in October demonstrated the durability of carotid artery stenting to prevent stokes compared to endarterectomy. Specifically, preliminary three-year data from the SAPPHIRE (Stentings and Angioplasty with Protection in Patients at High Risk for Endarterectomy) study revealed similar stroke rates among patients treated with both techniques: 7.1% in those who received stents and 6.7% in endarterectomy patients (945 patients in all), representing the stents’ non-inferiority. | |
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| Waking up under the knife: Potential preventive monitoring under debate |
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| Many anesthesiologists say it’s what they fear second only to a patient dying during surgery: A patient wakes up during an operation and, though feeling and hearing what is happening to him or her, is incapable of letting the surgical team know. | |
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