Notes from Dr. RW

Learning resources on a variety of topics in anesthesiology and critical care.

COPE.org

This is another AHA instruction video. Notice how long she fiddled around checking for air movement and getting a b...

AHA instructional video, V fib arrest, BLS transitioning to ACLS Keep in mind the emerging controversy...

Not beneficial in terms of either renal function or blood pressure in this multicenter randomized trial. Stenting was associated with comp...

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Was it Robert Wachter or Myra Rosenbloom ? You decide. Background in Today's Hospitalist .

---is fast approaching. I've told you about it here and in several other posts. I'm signed up and ready to go. T...

Research study and editorial in JAMA.

Do you know respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease (RbILD) from bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (...

The positive and negative predictive values for central pulmonary artery obstruction were good in this study : Troponi...

Don’t forget the association . It can be an aneurysm or a pseudoaneurysm, can occur as a new aneurysm or infection of a pre-existing one, a...

This article in the American Journal of Medicine explores some of the reasons. Repeated copying a nd pasting of other notes and template ge...

As much as I liked Gawande's New Yorker article I'm having increasing reservations about the accuracy of his assertions, as I sugge...

I'm all over health care variation and non-evidence based medicine (N-EBM) these days. They're hot topics because o...

Antiplatelet agents, but not anticoagulants, were associated with cerebral microbleeds in this study . While that may seem surprising at fi...

H/T to DB for pointing me to this follow up article by Atul Gawande concerning his earlier New Yorker piece on health care costs. Here...

In view of the reaction to Atul Gawande’s recent New Yorker article I thought it would be interesting to explore some of the many reasons f...

The horribly ill patients who are typically admitted to the hospital often have electrolyte disturbances or other conditions that may prolon...

---has very poor sensitivity and only fair specificity. A new study shows that positive electrocardiographic findings indicative of right ...