Critical Care General
May 05, 2014
Are you familiar with a case in Minnesota where a doctor sued a patient's son for defamation over a negative review he posted? Dr. David McKee’s defamation lawsuit, a 4-year legal battle ended up in...
Apr 24, 2014
According to current estimates, there are about 30 million licensed drivers in the United States aged 65 and older, but this figure is expected to jump to 57 million by 2030. Studies indicate that dri...
Apr 18, 2014
A newcomer snatched a spot in the top 3 highest earning specialties – check out which one in our summary of Medscape’s 2014 annual compensation report! In this year’s Medscape Physician Compe...
Apr 16, 2014
What happens when a hospital provides unnecessary care? Does your hospital sound like the one in this parody? Source: adamoppe. [Elite_video_player id="2"]...
Apr 15, 2014
About 2% to 6% of Americans have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition that is largely underdiagnosed but has been associated with multiple cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including coronary hear...
Apr 15, 2014
Patient-centered communication can impact several aspects of the patient-doctor relationship, including disclosure of illness-related information and compliance with medical recommendations. Etiquette...
Apr 10, 2014
Pulmonary complications after surgery are relatively common, occurring in roughly 3% of patients who undergo non-cardiac operations. When compared with other adverse postoperative outcomes, pulmonary ...
Apr 09, 2014
Studies have shown that only about half of American adults have basic reading and numerical skills, and a lack of these skills can compromise health literacy. Low health literacy has been associated w...
Apr 05, 2014
Studies have shown that recent influenza-like infection is a non-traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor that has been linked to fatal and non-fatal atherothrombotic events. “There is i...
Mar 11, 2014
Throughout healthcare, there has been a recent push for electronic communications to be used more frequently as a means to improve quality of care. Examples include emailing test results to patients o...
Mar 05, 2014
Emergency medicine (EM) physicians have a heightened duty to advocate for the interests of their patients. They provide care for the most vulnerable people, including those who are physically and ment...
Feb 14, 2014
Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight — and the often startl...
Feb 10, 2014
Throughout the United States, reducing the rates of hospital readmissions has become a top priority, as evidenced by CMS planning to include surgical procedures in the expansion of the penalty program...
Feb 10, 2014
Imagine you are sick and live in the upper Manhattan section of New York City. Your doctor tells you that you need major surgery. Luckily, you have excellent insurance and can go anywhere in the city ...
Feb 06, 2014
Recent research in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) suggests that there are associations between medication non-adherence and an increased risk for hospitalizations, pulmonary exacerbations, lower b...
Feb 05, 2014
Delirium in the ICU has been well studied and is associated with poor patient outcomes. Other studies have suggested that few patients in the ICU get adequate sleep for a variety of reasons. The link ...
Jan 21, 2014
New research is being presented at STS 2014, the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, from January 25 to 29 in Orlando. STS leaders describe some of the mus...
Jan 15, 2014
In 2010, COPD surpassed stroke to become the third leading cause of death in the United States, affecting an estimated 24 million Americans. Studies indicate, however, that as many as half of those af...
Jan 13, 2014
The Particulars: Inadequate communication between emergency and critical care team providers has been shown to magnify the potential for serious side effects among critically ill patients with long bo...