Diagnosing Lung Consolidations With Ultrasound
Lung ultrasounds appear to be a reliable alternative to chest x-rays for the bedside diagnosis of...
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Month: July 2015
Psychiatric Care Inaccessible
Recent estimates show that fewer than 40% of Americans who suffer from mental illness—or about 11...
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Hyperlipidemia Increases CHD Risk
Duke researchers have found that cumulative exposure to hyperlipidemia in young adulthood appears...
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Cardiac Rehab After Open Heart Surgery
A study has found that early enrollment into cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after open heart surgery...
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STI History Among Adolescents
A study has found that about one in 10 sexually active adolescents presenting to the ED appear to...
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OSA, Stroke, & AF
Research suggests that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) appears to be an independent predictor of...
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Team Approach Benefits ED Residents
Emergency medicine (EM) faculty physicians are often challenged to develop clinical experiences...
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Heart Failure Care by Provider Type
Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) care that is delivered by cardiologists appears to result...
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Anesthesia-Related Injuries & Mortality
There have been significant improvements in patient safety with the administration of anesthesia,...
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Defining Rx Opioid Overdose Risk
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear...
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Comparing Ventral Hernia Repair Approaches
Among patients with a small umbilical or epigastric hernia, mesh repair appears to halve the...
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Calif. Vaccine Bill Bans Personal, Religious Exemptions
In the US, we eradicated measles. The 20th century brought one of the greatest weapons ever to...
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Medscape’s 2015 Physician Compensation Report
Nearly 20,000 physicians across 25 specialties responded to Medscape’s 2015 Compensation Survey....
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Blind Man Receives Bionic Eye – Video
A man’s sight is artificially restored by a bionic eye as he sees his wife for the first...
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Managing CKD in Patients With HIV
Studies indicate that up to one-third of people with HIV has abnormal kidney function. Chronic...
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The 2015 Immunization Schedule for Adults
Based on three changes in the area of adult immunizations that occurred recently, the CDC’s...
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The Burden of COPD & Symptom Severity
In 2000, the first “Confronting COPD International Survey” found that many patients with diagnosed...
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Including Emphysema in Lung Cancer Screening
Lung cancer screening based solely on the National Lung Screening Trial criteria appears to miss a...
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