Notes from Dr. RW

This just published article from Cleveland Clinic examines the evidence concerning MOC, its unintended consequences and the current status ...

Dr. Robert M. Centor, the blog author at DB's Medical Rants , opines on this subject from time to time and did so again yesterday . He ...

The push back against ABIM's Maintenance of Certification program (MOC) is growing by leaps and bounds . Most of this, as far as I ca...

A Dalvance drug rep will be bringing lunch to a hospital near you, and soon. So you might as well learn a little about it now. Here's...

I hope readers will understand my using the name Zosyn instead of the more clunky piperacillin/tazobactam. I think the term “gone viral” w...

Currently available options for reversal of TSOACs are limited. However, specific antidotes are in the pipeline and were the subject of thi...

This recent article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine is nothing new, and it is already a little out of date because it does not acknowl...

Current guidelines for MRSA targeted vanc dosing have been around for a while now and should be pretty familiar but inappropriate dosing is ...

From the Get with the Guideline-Stroke database : Methods and Results—We analyzed all AIS patients (n=1 9093 895) and those arriving less ...

Particularly the elderly according to this paper : Methods. A retrospective cohort study was conducted on all adults (greater than or equa...

From a recent meta-analysis : Methods Databases (PubMed, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library) and conference proceedings were searched for p...

CT pulmonary angiography has opened up a can of worms. Although less sensitive than VQ scanning for clinically significant pulmonary emboli...

Phenformin, an older generation biguanide and metformin's precursor, was in its last days on the pharmaceutical market during my train...

I have written a number of posts about the binary distinction of “STEMI versus NSTEMI” for acute coronary syndrome. In those posts I have...

The Z-drugs are the newer generation hypnotics zolpidem, zopiclone, and zaleplon. These drugs are increasingly reported to impair cognition...

Here's a great podcast andaccompanying notes from ercast. For further reading here's the American College of Radiology...

From a recent large database of patients with unstable PE : Results Among 21,095 unstable patients with pulmonary embolism w...

Here is a case report and brief topic discussion from the SHM 2014 abstract presentations. This condition is easily overlooked b...

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From the Lancet RespiratoryMedicine : Pulmonary vascular leakage occurs early in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)....