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A study out last year from the journal Psychopathology found a relationship between excessive Internet use and depression. It was based on...

Review in Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine.

From a review in Current Opinion in Critical Care: Front load it and titrate it early to hemodynamic goals. Although starch preparati...

One time years ago, when it came out in conversation that I was a doctor, a lady asked what kind of a doctor I was. “An internist,” I said....

---What does would it add? As I've explained before, we've always had reimbursement for end of life counseling. I've availe...

---not on Grandma, but on the end of life counseling provision . This is actually the second time the plug was pulled. First time around i...

This is according to Seth Godin. As he said, it's the metacognition that matters. Blogging has forced me to think about what I read...

According to this Medscape presentation : IO access is one of the quickest ways to establish vascular access for the rapid infusion of flui...

From a study in Critical Care Medicine. Conclusions: Increasing age was independently associated with risk-adjusted short- and long-term mo...

The EMR has not lived up to its promise of improving patient safety and quality. Reasons for this might include the fact that the process “...

---were generally poor and related to the duration of status in this study : The median time from convulsive status epilepticus onset to an...

How many intensivists do it non-invasively? From a survey of SCCM members: Measurements and Main Results: Use of non-invasive and invasive...

Pulmonary (Read) View more presentations from changezkn . This slide show has excellent content and numerous pearls warranting posting he...

The Take Heart America campaign resulted in process improvements and more than double the rate of cardiac arrest survival as reported in Cri...

Review in Pharmacotherapy. Full text via Medscape .

From Eastern Kentucky University . Lecture notes enhanced by You Tube videos.

These are word files and a few MP3s.

In the era of patient centered care it's fashionable during DNR discussions to let people pick and choose from a menu of interventions, ...

Not nearly often enough, and it depends on the specialty service according to this study .

Bright people in high places occasionally say dumb things. In such a politically charged time as 2010 it made for great entertainment. Her...