Emergency Trauma

Initial outcomes of PERT at Cleveland Clinic

FROM CHEST 2016 LOS ANGELES (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Initial outcomes measures are beginning ...

Frontline Medical News November 22, 2016

TRUE-AHF: Urgent vasodilator therapy in acute HF provides no long-term benefit

AT THE AHA SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS NEW ORLEANS (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – An investigational synthetic ...

Frontline Medical News November 21, 2016

Kaiser experience: A helping hand reduces COPD readmissions

AT CHEST 2016 LOS ANGELES (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – With a handful of common-sense ...

Frontline Medical News November 21, 2016

CSL112 enhances cholesterol efflux capacity after acute MI

FROM THE AHA SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS CSL112, a plasma-derived apolipoprotein A-1 (apoA-1) that enhances cholesterol ...

Frontline Medical News November 15, 2016

Hypotension ‘dose’ drives mortality in traumatic brain injury

AT THE AHA SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS NEW ORLEANS (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – The severity and ...

Frontline Medical News November 13, 2016

Why is the mental health burden in EDs rising?

The mounting impact of mental illness on patients and the American health care system ...

Frontline Medical News November 10, 2016

He/O2 does not reduce NIV failure in severe COPD exacerbations

FROM AJRCCM Inhaling He/O2 did not result in a lower NIV failure rate than ...

Frontline Medical News November 3, 2016

Hospitalizations for opioid poisoning tripled in preschool children

FROM JAMA PEDIATRICS From 1997 to 2012, the annual number of hospitalizations for opioid ...

Frontline Medical News November 1, 2016

New trials address unresolved issues in endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke

AT ANA 2016 BALTIMORE (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Endovascular therapy is a bedrock of ...

Frontline Medical News October 28, 2016

Fluid administration in sepsis did not increase need for dialysis

AT CHEST 2016 LOS ANGELES (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Fluid administration of at least ...

Frontline Medical News October 26, 2016

Pelvic fracture pattern predicts the need for hemorrhage control

AT THE AAST ANNUAL MEETING WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Blunt trauma patients admitted in shock ...

Frontline Medical News October 23, 2016

TBI scoring system predicts outcomes with only initial head CT findings

WASHINGToN (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – A simple 8-point scoring system based on head CT ...

Frontline Medical News October 22, 2016

Lyme disease spirochete helps babesiosis gain a foothold

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM ASM 2016 BOSTON (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – The spirochete that causes ...