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Pharmacotherapy
January 2025
Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Background: Fluid overload (FO) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is common, serious, and may be preventable. Intravenous medications (including administered volume) are a primary cause for FO but are challenging to evaluate as a FO predictor given the high frequency and time-dependency of their use and other factors affecting FO. We sought to employ unsupervised machine learning methods to uncover medication administration patterns correlating with FO.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Vet Med Assoc
January 2025
1New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA.
Objective: Information about congestive heart failure (CHF) treatment in the horse is limited. Torsemide, an oral loop diuretic, is increasingly used in humans, dogs, and cats with CHF. Torsemide is well absorbed and induces diuresis in healthy horses, and its use in a horse with CHF has been reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Surg
December 2024
Department of Pediatric Urology, Department of Senior Pediatrics, The Seventh Medical Centre, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, Beijing, China; Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), Beijing, China. Electronic address:
Purpose: To assess the surgical outcomes of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Extravesical Ureteral Reimplantation (RALUR-EV) in infants under one year of age with primary vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) as compared to older children.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 48 children with VUR who underwent unilateral or bilateral RALUR-EV between June 2018 and December 2022. Patients were divided into two groups: Group A (25 infants under one year) and Group B (23 children over one year).
Turk J Med Sci
December 2024
Deputy Health Minister, Ministry of Health, Ankara, Turkiye.
Background/aim: Effective management of heart failure involves evidence-based use of multiple medications and their combinations. Furthermore, dosage escalation of the recommended medications is advised. In cases of advanced heart failure, long-term mechanical assistance devices or heart transplantation surgery may be necessary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm Heart J
December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Introduction: Hospitalization rates for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) have increased, resulting in 6.5 million hospital days annually. Despite this, optimal diuretic strategies for managing ADHF remain unclear, highlighting the need to analyze diuretic practice patterns in ADHF treatment.
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