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The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure.
The Keystone Initiative published its results in the December, 2006 New England Journal of Medicine. [14] In the first three months of the project, the infection rate in Michigan's ICUs decreased by sixty-six per cent. In the Initiative's first eighteen months, they estimated that 1500 lives and $100 million were saved.
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. Founded in 1812, the journal is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. [1] Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal". [2]
The Journal of Critical Care is a peer-reviewed medical journal which covers intensive care medicine. It is the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and the Society for Complex Acute Illness. The editor-in-chief is Jan Bakker. It is published every two months by Elsevier.
The organization accomplishes this by utilizing a board of physicians and editors who monitor scientific and medical journals for relevant articles, summarize the articles, and provide additional commentary about the topic. NEJM Journal Watch divides its content into areas of primary care, specialty care, and specific watch topics.
With critical illness myopathy, no other cause of the muscle degeneration can be found. [ citation needed ] Unlike Guillain–Barre syndrome , another neurological disorder that causes weakness, patients with critical illness polyneuropathy do not have loss of the myelin sheath that normally surrounds neurons ( demyelination ).
Critical Care is an online open access peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive-care medicine. The founding editor and the current editor-in-chief is Jean-Louis Vincent of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Critical Care was established in 1997 and is currently published by BioMed Central.
An article in the May issue of the New England Journal of Medicine called for wider U.S. use of medication-assisted therapies for addicts, commonly referred to as MATs. It was written by Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse — which helped research Suboxone before it earned FDA approval in 2002 — along with ...