Saturday, August 31, 2013

Inflammatory myopathies

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Review in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.  
Friday, August 30, 2013

What transfusion threshold for UGI bleeds?

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Conservative was better in this study .
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Writing as therapy and a tool for enhanced professional growth

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Maybe this is why we blog.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Troubleshooting high ventilator pressures

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Via Academic Life in Emergency Medicine .
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Problems with EHR templates and other documentation tools

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EHRs were touted early on as time savers while facilitating documentation in support of better reimbursement. The real world truth, as has ...
Monday, August 26, 2013

What to do with troponin elevations when the clinical picture is uncertain

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The ACCF 2012 Expert Consensus Document is helpful . Points of interest: MI type designations 1-5, respectively, denote unstable coronary ar...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Stroke after cardiac catheterization

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It doesn't happen very often but it happens . Nowadays regional thrombolysis or clot retrieval may be options.
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Octreotide for non-variceal UGI bleeds: state of the controversy

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An update at the Emergency Medicine PharmD blog.
Friday, August 23, 2013

Mesenteric vein thrombosis

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A free full text review is available from Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Just a few points of interest: Think of it when the patient's pain ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Whither sedation interruption?

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A lot of folks are no doubt rethinking the notion of daily sedation interruption in view of last November's JAMA paper which at first g...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Don't forget procainamide---it's still around

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Though all but forgotten among emergency medicine and hospitalist types it has a prominent place in several guideline recommendations. Thes...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Post-marketing experience with dabigatran

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---is reassuring according to a recent JACC paper : Conclusions In this ‘everyday clinical practice’ post-approval nationwide clinical co...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Mayo Clinic review of new oral anticoagulants

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I've blogged a lot on the novel anticoagulants already but this review is important to bookmark because it's free full text and bri...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Your patient on Plavix breaks a hip. Now what?

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According to this small study from Mayo you don't have to wait to get it fixed.
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Opioid deaths

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I ranted so much about this I got tired of it a couple of years ago. But then I noticed, via the Emergency Medicine PharmD blog , this litt...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Critical care drug doses at a glance

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I have a few quibbles and might consider a couple of these to be suggested doses. Useful overall nevertheless. Via Emergency Medicine Phar...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Calcium contraindication in dig mediated hyperkalemia: fact or myth?

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That question is examined in a recent post at the Emergency Medicine PharmD blog, with no pat answer.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Palliative care

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Here's a review containing another one of those top ten lists specialists wished others knew about their specialty. Palliative care is...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Carbapenem-resistant gram negative infections: treatment update

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Here's another review , available as free full text via Medscape. High level data are lacking but what studies we have suggest the foll...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Cardiac sarcoidosis

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A review and a report of it presenting with electrical storm.