Routine oxygen administration in the PACU: should everybody receive it?

Should all Iranian Citizens Receive the Same Subsidy Rebate?

The ‘Subsidy Targeting Project’ was introduced by the government of Iran in 2010 to ease the impact of removing price subsidies (carried out as part of recent economic liberalization reforms). Under this scheme, regardless of their socio-economic characteristics, Iranian citizens residing in Iran receive the same amount of cash rebate (currently 455,000 Iranian Rials per month). Thi...

Combination warfarin-ASA therapy: which patients should receive it, which patients should not, and why?

Combination warfarin-ASA therapy is currently used in approximately 800,000 patients in North America as long-term treatment for the primary and secondary prevention of atherothrombotic and thromboembolic diseases. Despite a potentially complementary action of anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs, the use of combination warfarin-ASA therapy is not based on compelling evidence of a net therapeut...

European mental health policy should target everybody.

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Episiotomy--should we continue it as routine practice.

Should all patients undergoing cardiac catheterization or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty receive oxygen?

BACKGROUND Supplemental oxygen is routinely administered to patients with acute coronary syndromes. The risk of significant morbidity during cardiac catheterization or coronary angioplasty has been well described; however, to our knowledge, the need for routine oxygen supplementation in these patients has not been investigated. METHODS In phase 1, we prospectively studied 142 patients undergo...