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Optimizing ICU Patient Care with ABCDEF Bundle Training

American Medical Compliance

Furthermore, the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU PAD Guidelines) were updated in 2013 by the American College of Critical Care Medicine, in association with the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

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Episode 24 - First Trimester Pregnancy Emergencies: Recognition and Management

EB Medicine

This corresponds nicely to a 2013 retrospective study demonstrating a bHCG threshold for the fetal pole to be just below 1400. So to get us all on the same page, the discriminatory zone is the b-HCG at which an IUP is expected to be seen on ultrasound. Generally 1500 is used as the cutoff.