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Am J Emerg Med
January 2025
Minnesota Regional Poison Center, Department of Pharmacy, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, Duluth, MN, USA. Electronic address:
Acute digoxin poisoning is increasingly uncommon in emergency medicine. Furthermore, controversy exists regarding indications for antidotal digoxin immune fab in acute poisoning. In healthy adults, the fab prescribing information recommends administration based on "known consumption of fatal doses of digoxin: ≥10mg," while many emergency medicine textbooks suggest fab administration be driven by clinical features or potassium concentration.
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January 2025
Pharmacy Practice Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Culture and susceptibility results are essential to optimize antibiotic treatment. Prescribers rely on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) interpretation to prescribe antibiotics. Many hospitals include MIC values with the interpretation in culture and susceptibility reports, where comparing MICs can be misleading (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Drug Policy
January 2025
Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York City, NY, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Identifying the most effective state laws and provisions to reduce opioid overdose deaths remains critical.
Methods: Using expert ratings of opioid laws, we developed annual state scores for three domains: opioid prescribing restrictions, harm reduction, and Medicaid treatment coverage. We modeled associations of state opioid policy domain scores with opioid-involved overdose death counts in 3133 counties, and among racial/ethnic subgroups in 1485 counties (2013-2020).
Int J Drug Policy
January 2025
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.
Healthcare avoidance or delays for wounds and related skin- and soft-tissue infections are often attributed to negative interactions with medical providers. An infrastructural violence framework posits that healthcare infrastructure serves as a material channel for structural violence, maintaining inequities in healthcare experiences and outcomes. Infrastructural violence ensues when infrastructure is designed for some members or groups within a society while perpetuating violence among others.
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