National and State Estimates of COPD Morbidity and Mortality — United States, 2014-2015

Burn injuries are a common source of morbidity and mortality in the United States, with an estimated 450,000 burn injuries requiring medical treatment, 40,000 requiring hospitalization, and 3,400 deaths from burns annually in the United States. Patients with severe burns are at high risk for local and systemic infections. Furthermore, burn patients are immunosuppressed, as thermal injury results in less phagocytic activity and lymphokine production by macrophages. In recent years, multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens have become major contributors to morbidity and mortality in burn patients.Since only limited data are available on the incidence of both device- and nondevice-associated healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in burn patients, we undertook this retrospective cohort analysis of patients admitted to our burn intensive care unit (ICU) from 2008 to 2012.

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Reported Whooping Cough Morbidity and Mortality in the United States

Public Health Reports (1896-1970) ◽

10.2307/4584441 ◽

1943 ◽

Vol 58 (17) ◽

pp. 661 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

C. C. Dauer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Whooping Cough ◽

The United States ◽

Morbidity And Mortality

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Narrowing the mindware gap in medicine

Diagnosis ◽

10.1515/dx-2020-0128 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Pat Croskerry

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cognitive Performance ◽

Clinical Reasoning ◽

Medical Errors ◽

Medical Error ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

The United States ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Medical Educators ◽

High Degree

Abstract Medical error is now recognized as one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Of the medical errors, diagnostic failure appears to be the dominant contributor, failing in a significant number of cases, and associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality. One of the significant contributors to diagnostic failure is the cognitive performance of the provider, how they think and decide about the process of diagnosis. This thinking deficit in clinical reasoning, referred to as a mindware gap, deserves the attention of medical educators. A variety of specific approaches are outlined here that have the potential to close the gap.

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Role of Image-Guided Percutaneous Drainage in Pancreatic Collections

Digestive Disease Interventions ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1655772 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 02 (02) ◽

pp. 125-130

Author(s):

Katayoun Samadi ◽

Ronald Arellano

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Acute Pancreatitis ◽

Percutaneous Drainage ◽

Hospital Admissions ◽

Disease Process ◽

The United States ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Image Guided ◽

Gastrointestinal Conditions

AbstractAcute pancreatitis is one of the major gastrointestinal conditions that lead to around 300,000 hospital admissions per year in the United States. While mild inflammation of the pancreas is often managed conservatively, progression of the disease process to necrosis significantly increases the overall morbidity and mortality and often requires surgical or other interventional techniques for management. The purpose of this review is to describe the role of percutaneous drainage for the management of complicated pancreatitis.

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Smallpox Vaccination

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.49.6.922a ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 49 (6) ◽

pp. 922-923

Author(s):

Edward B. Shaw

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Herd Immunity ◽

The United States ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Routine Immunization ◽

Smallpox Vaccination ◽

Significant Morbidity

The zero incidence of smallpox in the United States for so many years, and the significant morbidity and mortality from vaccination, has led to the acceptable and desirable recommendation that routine immunization against smallpox be discontinued. However appropriate this step may seem, it will pose a number of new problems which will involve the pediatrician especially. (1) For many years, smallpox vaccination has been an almost sacred tenet, an immunologic gospel to the population, and has been credited with the conquest of this disease in this country—even though herd immunity could hardly be said to have existed here. Public reeducation is a hazardous matter.

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Splenic Injury with Subsequent Pleural Effusion: An Underreported Complication of Colonoscopy

Case Reports in Gastroenterology ◽

10.1159/000494917 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 6-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Idrees Suliman ◽

John Guirguis ◽

Iryna Chyshkevych ◽

Nemer F. Dabage

Keyword(s):

Colorectal Cancer ◽

United States ◽

Pleural Effusion ◽

Cancer Prevention ◽

Conservative Management ◽

Splenic Injury ◽

Rare Complication ◽

Routine Screening ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Screening Colonoscopy

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. As such, there are recognized guidelines in the screening of this preventable cancer. There are differences in opinion regarding screening recommendations between the European and United States Cancer Prevention Societies. Screening colonoscopy is an option for routine screening for colorectal cancer in asymptomatic adults. It is a day procedure that is conducted both in hospital and specialized outpatient endoscopy suites. Serious harm is in the region of 3 per 1,000 examinations [Am J Gastroenterol. 2016 Aug; 111(8): 1092–101]. Splenic injury is a rare complication of colonoscopy whose frequency is unclear. Conservative management of splenic injury is desirable in order to preserve immunocompetence. We present a case in which a previously healthy 59-year-old female developed a splenic injury and later pleural effusion after screening colonoscopy.

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