Six nonsmoking, adult, male volunteers participated in the study. Each subject was judged to be in good health on the basis of a physical examination, clinical laboratory testing, and ECC. These data can be found in lable 1. The study was an open label, randomized, crossover design. All subjects signed an informed consent approved by [...]

A 64-year-old Puerto Rican man (height, 160 cm; weight, 64 kg) was admitted to the hospital on December 25 with an exacerbation of asthma. He was afebrile but had a cough productive of thin white sputum. His chest radiograph was normal. The arterial blood gas values were pH, 7.44; Pcoa, 34; COa content, 24; Po„ [...]

Mebendazole and thiabendazole are benzimidazole compounds used in the treatment of parasitic infections. Patients with asthma who have immigrated from areas endemic with Strongyloides may have exacerbations of their asthma with Strongyloides mi­gration up the tracheobronchial tree. These patients may be treated with theophylline and if Strongyloides is found in stool or sputum specimens, thiabendazole [...]

In this study of patients treated in hospital for acute myocardial infarction, the prescribing rates at discharge for the 4 classes of medications were higher than established bench­mark values. One-third to one-half of the patients were already receiving one or more of the medications of interest at admission. This finding is clinically significant, as improvements [...]

Patient Characteristics Medical records for a total of 346 patients were reviewed. The mean age (± SD) of patients was 65.3 ± 13.4 years, andalmost two-thirds (226 [65.3%]) were male (Table 2). Before admission, approximately half of the patients had dyslipidemia (181 [52.3%]) or hypertension (197 [56.9%]), and almost one-third (100 [28.9%]) had a history [...]

This retrospective study involved patients discharged from 2 adult acute care sites of Eastern Health. At the time of the study, the 2 sites had a total of about 550 acute care beds, and each contained a coronary care unit. One of these sites housed the cardiac catheterization laboratory and the cardiac surgery program for [...]

INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, treatment of acute myocardial infarction has improved through more rapid recognition of symptoms, treatment with fibrin-specific thrombolytics and percutaneous coronary intervention, and clinical trials that have demonstrated reductions in morbidity and mortality with appropriate acute treatment and secondary prevention. Specifically, evidence now supports the use of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), [...]