Publications by authors named "Mitchell Rashkin"
Rationale: Little is known about the consequences of intensivists’ work schedules, or intensivist continuity of care.
Objectives: To assess the impact of weekend respite for intensivists, with consequent reduction in continuity of care, on them and their patients.
Methods: In five medical intensive care units (ICUs) in four academic hospitals we performed a prospective, cluster-randomized, alternating trial of two intensivist staffing schedules.
The mean green popsicle: using cryotherapy to remove aspirated foreign bodies.
J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol
October 2010
Article Synopsis
- Foreign body aspiration (FB) can be dangerous for people of all ages, leading to symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, or even asphyxiation.
- A case is presented involving a 54-year-old man who suffered respiratory arrest after aspirating a foreign body, which standard treatments couldn't address.
- The removal of the FB was successfully achieved through cryotherapy, suggesting that this method is effective for expelling soft foreign bodies.
Drug-induced hepatotoxicity is an infrequent but life-threatening complication. Sunitinib is a multitargeted receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for treatment of renal cell carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor. However, results from preapproval clinical trials suggest an equivocal hepatic risk profile for sunitinib.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Surfactant abnormalities have been described in bacterial pneumonia.
Objective: To determine the safety and effect of exogenous surfactant replacement in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
Methods: Patients with VAP were randomized in a double-blind study to receive either an artificial surfactant (Exosurf) consisting mostly of disaturated phospholipids (DSPL) or saline via a continuous nebulizer system for 5 days.