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3, 6 Among patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI), the risk may be as high as 28%-76% and 23%-60%, respectively. 11 Curiously, VAP in patients with traumatic headinjury does not appear to increase mortality, but does increase ventilator time, ICU, and hospital length of stay.
Her research interests include optimizing pain treatment in children. Amy Drendel is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and physician scientist at Children’s Wisconsin. She is a Professor of Pediatrics and Interim Chief of the Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
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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. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network headinjury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice.
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