Monday, February 26, 2018

Testosterone replacement in men with low T

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Bone mineral density and bone strength improved, but we need to find out about fracture risk .
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Leprosy review

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Free full text .
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Laboratory diagnosis of Legionnaires’ disease

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From a recent review : Legionnaires’ disease is commonly diagnosed clinically using a urinary antigen test. The uri...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Hyperlactatemia in sepsis

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The relationships between lactate kinetics and the physiologic derangements in sepsis are more complex than we once thought ...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Babesiosis review

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Here is a free full text review on the topic. Points of interest: The main species causing human disease ar...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Raising magnesium awareness

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George Lundberg at Medscape .
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Management of long QT

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It’s complicated : Recent findings LQT syndrome remains the most common inherited arrhythmia and is a leadi...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Unexplained anemia in older men related to low T

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From JAMA Internal Medicine : Question Will testosterone treatment of older men with low testosterone levels and m...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Low FFR predicted events even in lesions that looked “insignificant”

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Report here .
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Local anesthetic toxicity

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Free full text review .
Friday, February 16, 2018

Pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease

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From a paper in the American Journal of Medicine : Highlights •Echocardiographically tricuspid incompet...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Lactate elevations in critical illness: type a, type b or both?

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Here is a recent free full text review . It points out the following: Lactate is a semiquantitative indicato...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Less is more: calories that is

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Here is a recent review on the benefits of caloric restriction .
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Leprosy (Hansen’s disease): FAQs

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Here are some key points from a couple of reviews. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because these reviews are a bit dated I checked the points ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Leisure time physical activity reduces cardiovascular events and mortality in older patients

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The effect was dose dependent in this study .
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Update on CPR and ACLS

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This free full text review was written by Dr. Gordon Ewy, THE expert on BLS and ACLS.
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Early discharge time of day is associated with longer LOS

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From a recent study : BACKGROUND Discharging patients before noon is a key approach to improving bed utiliz...
Friday, February 09, 2018

How much do we spend on defensive medicine?

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From a survey of hospitalists : The United States spends substantially more per capita for healthcare than any othe...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Curbing overuse of the CT pulmonary angiogram in evaluating for pulmonary embolism

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From a recent review : BACKGROUND: Imaging use in the diagnostic workup of pulmonary embolism (PE) has in...
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Determining ejection fraction using an I phone

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Reported here in Critical Care Medicine .