South Dakota medicine : the journal of the South Dakota State Medical Association
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Review
Review of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Diagnosis and Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
Acute coronary syndrome is a life-threatening event that affects millions of people each year and accounts for a big portion of hospital visits. With an ever-growing elderly patient population, ischemic heart disease is more prevalent than ever before. ⋯ Guidelines are continuously evolving as more multicenter randomized trials, new medications and new technologies continue to change the way we treat acute coronary syndromes. The focus of this review is ST-elevation myocardial infarction and it provides answers to some of the fundamental questions through evidence-based guidelines.
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To estimate the impact of severity of illness and length of stay on costs incurred during a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) hospitalization. ⋯ Higher severity of illness resulted in higher total PICU costs. Interestingly, although daily PICU costs across severity of illness showed a statistically significant difference, the practical economic difference was minimal, emphasizing the importance of length of stay to total PICU costs. Thus, the study suggested that reducing length of stay independent of illness severity may be a practical cost control measure within the pediatric intensive care setting.