Notes from Dr. RW

You can add this one to two growing lists: bariatric surgery complications and non hepatic hyperammonemias. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ...

In diffuse or multifocal parenchymal lung disease the HRCT may point to a specific diagnosis or place the disorder in a cate...

A newly appreciated complication of vascular access .

Hospitalists write medication orders, take calls for “housekeeping” issues and do the discharge paperwork. With us, quality...

From Chest, free full text .

Hospitalists will be obsolete as the hospital care team continues home care via telemedicine and putting patients to death w...

From a report from last year : Background Prior work has shown that symptoms leading to restrictions in dai...

Survey results .

From JAMA : Question Does the addition of home noninvasive ventilation to home oxygen therapy prolong time to read...

The different forms of diabetes no longer lend them selves to two simple categories. Various efforts to refin...

From the American Journal of Medicine .

About a third failed to meet STEMI criteria .

This was the topic of a recent article in the American Journal of Medicine . The article offers a useful perspective...

No improvement in mortality .

Sound familiar? This paper makes the case for cardiology consultation , at least if the drug is going to be continued at di...

Here’s their position paper .

The evidence is somewhere in the range of slim to none .

This review is mainly about the various mechanisms and electrocardiographic patterns.

From a recent study : Guideline-directed therapy for sepsis calls for early fluid resuscitation. Often patients rec...

This free full text review deals mainly with the various mechanisms of AV block, clues on the surface ECG and when EP testi...