Notes from Dr. RW

---including cleaning and decontaminating patient care areas. Hard to believe but true according to a TV news report . A particularly rich ...

From Brian Swarthout .

Here is a case report and brief review . It can present with syncope, orthostatic hypotension, labile blood pressure and heart rate. Blood ...

Here's another delightful essay by Herbert Fred . With the demise of the little black bags (which were provided as gifts from the drug ...

From a recent study : Materials and Methods: Patients who were transported to this department from January 2005 to December 2010 and sub...

From BMC Anesthesiology : Methods We performed a post-hoc analysis of a prospective study in septic patients who were resuscitated acco...

From a recent study : A cross‐sectional survey was performed consisting of 36 deidentified ECGs that had previously resulted in putative S...

In this series physical stress was more often the trigger than emotional stress. All manner of electrocardiographic presentations were not...

Among the many assumptions that underlie the board certification (BC) and maintenance of certification (MOC) processes most are based on wea...

A set of resources from the European Society of Cardiology.

Well, that's the claim made in a recent BMJ editorial on the new guidelines (HT to DB's Medical Rants ). To recap, the emphasis o...

There's a lot of misinformation flying around about the 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atheroscl...

This refers to either extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or extracorporeal CO2 removal (ECCO2R), for a variety of indications but ma...

This review from the Archives of Medical Science helps explain the cardiovascular consequences of the metabolic syndrome.

New from the FDA : The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning health care professionals of the rare but serious risk of heart ...

Results of two trials were presented at AHA. In this one 33 C was no better as a therapeutic target than 36 C in terms of survival or neuro...

In patients with acute ischemic stroke not receiving thrombolytics, the guidelines for years recommend avoidance of antihypertensive therapy...

ENGAGE AF was presented at AHA and published in NEJM : Methods We conducted a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy trial comparing two...

From a recent study : Methods This retrospective study reviewed the electronic medical records of 192 patients initiated on intramuscular ...

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