Judgments
About five in the afternoon on a weekday trauma shift we got a call from Native Air, a helicopter...
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Hospital Medicine
Protocol-Based Care for Septic Shock
Until recently, the hospital mortality of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock was 50%. In...
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Identifying Patients With Problematic Drug Use in the ED
According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2.5 million of the 5.1 million drug-related ED visits...
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Expert Recommendations for Below-the-Knee PAD
Infrapopliteal (IP) arterial disease, also known as “below-the-knee” or tibial disease, is a...
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Gel Makes You Stop Bleeding Instantly – Video
Forget stitches—there’s a better way to close wounds. In this talk, TED Fellow Joe Landolina...
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New Options for Treating Opioid Addiction
The quest for improved outcomes in the treatment of opioid addiction is accelerating on several...
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Updating Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria (also referred to...
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Should Academic Cardiologists Go to National Meetings All the Time?
A study published last month in JAMA Internal Medicine found that high-risk Medicare patients with...
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New Guidelines for Hepatitis C Testing
In 2003, the CDC published recommendations on the laboratory testing and reporting of hepatitis C...
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Managing Older Patients With HIV
In 2015, more than half of people with HIV in the U.S. will be aged 50 or older, according to...
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Resistance Exercise for Knee OA
Research indicates that knee pain occurring with movement due to osteoarthritis (OA) strongly...
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Neck Manipulation & Stroke Risk
Cervical dissections (CD) of the arteries—small tears in the layers of the arterial walls in the...
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Presiding Over The Death of a Child
Last night, I presided over the death of a child. To the world he was a young man of 20, but as...
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Diagnosing Stroke in the ED
Studies suggest that there are missed opportunities to diagnose cerebrovascular causes for stroke...
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CPR Knowledge & Performance in the ED
Despite advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), survival and recovery for patients...
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Reducing Post-Op VTE Complications
At Boston Medical Center, researchers learned in 2009 that their institution was a high outlier...
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Health-Related Web Searches: Examining Quality
Most adults in the United States seek health information online, and many report that these...
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Cancer Care as a Business Decision
My wife is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. She works with a very good Internist who gives her a...
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The “July Effect” & ED Length of Stay
Throughout the medical community, the “July effect” or “July phenomenon” is a well-known entity...
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