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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

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A 2015 Nature (Pediatric Research) paper by Nils J. Bergman summarizes a body of research that confirms the benefits of sleeping on the belly. Research by Collett et al (2018) shows that, despite some improvement in PP by 18 months, the deformations persist beyond 36 months. This may not be true for infants.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

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Garcia T, Florin TA, Leonard J, Shah SS, Ruddy RM, Wallihan R, Desai AP, Alter S, El-Assal O, Marzec S, Keaton M, Yun KW, Leber AL, Mejias A, Cohen DM, Ramilo O, Ambroggio L; Childrens Hospitals Initiative for Research in Pneumonia (CHIRP). Studies supporting antibiotic treatment of documented mycoplasma pneumoniae in children are limited.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

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Emergency physicians have become leaders in achieving cost efficiency in health care, predominantly through implementation of new processes and research findings, enabling us to achieve significant financial savings. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021. However, such a view overlooks two critical facts.

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How to prevent central line infections

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There’s no randomized trial data to support this practice, and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC, whose recommendations CDC generally adopts) has advised against routine replacement of central lines as an infection prevention strategy. At some centers, central lines are regularly replaced (e.g.,

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Post #5 Concluding remarks on the Back-to-Sleep series

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These disparities cause the NICHD, AAP, and CDC to pour extra resources into disseminating the Safe to Sleep message to these groups. But these ideas have never been fully quantified (and are a neglected area of current research), and again, there seem to be costs to sleeping a healthy, full-term infant on her back.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

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This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. These guidelines present the best available evidence to support clinical decision making in the prehospital setting when TBI care may have the most significant impact on outcomes; they also establish a research agenda for future investigations.

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Issue #3: The Latest in Critical Care, 6/5/23

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Check out the preliminary program , and use code PULMCCM15 to get 15% off the attendance fees. Register today for H&R 2023 Sucralose disrupts DNA in in vitro cell cultures, and is linked to leaky gut syndrome, according to researchers publishing in a toxicology journal.