Wisconsin Bill: Cameras in the OR
A legislator in Wisconsin is proposing a bill that would require facilities to record both video...
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Hospital Medicine
Do OR Checklists Improve Outcomes?
“Implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was associated with robust reduction in morbidity and length of in-hospital stay and some reduction in mortality,” says the conclusion of a paper in the May 2015...
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Guidelines for Methadone Safety
Methadone is used for the treatment of opioid addiction and for chronic pain, but safety of the...
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Women & IHD: Coming to a Consensus
In recent decades, physicians have used the male model of testing to identify coronary artery...
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Malnutrition Among the Elderly in EDs
According to published research, malnutrition is a common but underdiagnosed condition among older...
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Linking Asthma to OSA Risk
Mounting evidence suggests there is a strong relationship between asthma and obstructive sleep...
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Caring for COPD Caregivers
As COPD progresses, patients with the disease experience more frequent bouts of shortness of...
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Sexual Risk & Men Who Have Sex With Men
In recent years, annual increases have been observed in the number of HIV infections among men who...
Read MoreTop 10 Best & Worst States for Docs to Work
A recent article published in Forbes announces the best and worst states for doctors to work, released by WalletHub. Based on 12 metrics, including earning potential, compensation, hospitals per capita, insured population rate,...
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Perioperative AF: Assessing Long-Term Stroke Risks
Studies have shown that atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter affect more than 33 million people...
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Trauma Surgeons: Lifeguards at the Shallow End?
There was a time, during my training and early in my career when the trauma surgeon was the...
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Insights on “Alarm Fatigue”
The term “alarm fatigue” refers to when clinicians are desensitized by alarms, many of which sound...
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Dating Violence Among Adolescent ED Visits
Adolescent and young adult dating violence, which encompasses both victimization and aggression,...
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Managing Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a life-threatening genetic disorder that affects approximately...
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Disability Among the Elderly
The following depicts the population aged 65 and older by number of disabilities and age, based on...
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The Increasing Costs of COPD
Chronic lower respiratory disease—the large majority of which is COPD—currently ranks as the third...
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Hello Darkness My Old Friend
My friend Nick, the ER doctor, called me the other day to tell me that one of my patients had died...
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Doctors Make Mistakes – Video
Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine’s culture of denial...
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Organ Donation in the ED
Emergency physicians (EPs) are at the forefront of efforts to save patients or preserve options...
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Cardiovascular Care for Hispanic Americans
According to current estimates, more than 53 million Hispanics live in the United States,...
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