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Rapid response calls decrease overnight, followed by an early morning spike in mortality
According to the authors, the results suggest that failure to rescue deteriorating patients is more common overnight and strategies aimed at improving rapid response team utilization during these hours may improve patient outcomes.
Follow-up blood cultures for gram-negative bacilli bacteremia may not be necessary
It took about five follow-up blood cultures to yield one positive result for gram-positive cocci, but about 17 follow-up blood cultures were needed to yield one positive result for gram-negative bacilli.
48 hours of targeted temperature management led to similar outcomes as 24 hours
Patients who were kept at 33 °C for 48 hours after cardiac arrest had a slight, but not significant, improvement in cognitive performance at six months.
Better outcomes seen in patients who received IV thrombolysis before thrombectomy
The results support current guideline recommendations to give intravenous thrombolysis to eligible patients even if they are being considered for mechanical thrombectomy, according to the meta-analysis authors.
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