Notes from Dr. RW

From Life in the Fast Lane .

Here is the abstract of the recent paper. The complete rule is not covered in the abstract but is outlined in this post from Hospital Medi...

Available here . HT to Hospital Medicine Quick Hits .

A resource on thrombosis and thrombophilia.

Very little has been published on this, but some folks have worked it out. Here's a very helpful post on the topic from the EMCrit blo...

This is an educational resource on topics related to antithrombotic therapy. Archived webcasts of the 11th National Conference on Anticoag...

You've got to see it to believe it . Via Respectful Insolence .

Since its origins the hospitalist movement has been redefined. According to our founding documents a hospitalist was a generalist physician...

In large part they are substitutes for thought . That's why they are so faulty and so many docs resist them.

A recent study published in Chest evaluated the sequence of clinical scoring, D-dimer testing, compression ultrasonography, V/Q scanning an...

Here's a nice update from CCJM with free full text and CME available. Points of interest: For neurologically appropriate patients (GC...

It looks like cardiologists are following the evidence according to this new study : Conclusions—Publication of results from the COURAGE tr...

In this recent paper investigators found a surprisingly high prevalence of cardiac sarcoidosis and giant cell myocarditis among patients ag...

The early repolarization pattern on the electrocardiogram was long considered a benign variant. Recent evidence suggests a subset of patien...

The asthma classification is important to an understanding of the treatment guidelines. I’ve always found it difficult to keep straight, so...

A new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine looked at changing trends in diagnosis and outcomes for pulmonary embolism since int...

From an NEJM study : The incidence of meningitis changed by −31% (95% confidence interval [CI], −33 to −29) during the surveillance period,...

---is enjoying expanded use . Newer products are safer and no longer carry black box warnings.

From the Paucis Verbis series at the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine blog.

Here's a new systematic review published in the journal Resuscitation. The conclusions were in line with the current recommendations: ...