Notes from Dr. RW

A review on diabetic foot infections and other soft tissue infections with emphasis on outpatient infusion therapy is presented here as a Me...

Bob Wachter’s Knol is one of the better overviews on hospital medicine I’ve seen. The section on the history of hospital medicine is partic...

A meta-analysis has demonstrated that perioperative statin use is associated with a decrease in atrial fibrillation, all cause mortality and...

A Knol is a “unit of knowledge” according to his description . Google rolled out its Knol project, which has been branded as “Google’s answ...

Procalcitonin is the prohormone for calcitonin. It is modified in the parathyroid gland to the active hormone and not normally released int...

Since its initial approval for severe sepsis recombinant activated protein C (apC) was beset by controversy stemming from questions about PR...

A paper in the Journal of General Internal Medicine set out to examine the content of medical blogs for appropriateness and professionalism....

Evidence which has accumulated since the original approval of activated protein C for severe sepsis suggests that patient selection is more ...

Read this before you sign up. It’s all too typical. Via Kevin M.D.

---consisted of a rebuttal by Dr. Howard Brody, Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Texas, Galveston along with two comment t...

Although I’ve already linked to Harvard Medical School professor Thomas Stossel’s Medscape commentary a couple of times it’s so rich I jus...

Mention conflicts of interest and the pharmaceutical industry immediately comes to mind. But there are many other conflicts in day to day pr...

Activation of the coagulation system and inflammatory cytokines are universal in sepsis and are interrelated. Although activated protein C ...

No. A story from the Annals of Family Medicine speaks louder than all the “data” you can marshal about hospitalists and outcomes. The author...

In an earlier post about the CME Thought Police I briefly mentioned Tom Stossel’s piece on the proposed ban on commercial support of CME and...

Early this year the Surviving Sepsis Campaign downgraded its recommendation for activated protein C based on new evidence. I blogged it her...

This review from Chest belongs in your list of references. You’ll find out how the latest evidence applies to questions such as these: What...

A guide from the November 2001 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

----with a focus on post discharge antiplatelet agents .

Recent blistering attacks on the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines have made a large appeal to public distrust of the pharmaceutical industry (spe...