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The relationship between neurologic complications of infective endocarditis (IE), urgent valve surgery, and outcomes is poorly understood. Thus, these investigators performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database of IE cases from 1984-2009 in seven Spanish hospitals.
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More patients who received a preventive medicine intervention also had their physician receive the corresponding preventive intervention.
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Uncomplicated cellulitis, defined as cellulitis without abscess, is most often caused by streptococci.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from an acutely ill but alert and hemodynamically stable patient. How certain are you that the rhythm is ventricular tachycardia (VT)? Might there be another explanation if the patient in question was a young adult with renal disease and diabetes?
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The majority of patients with advanced cancer have decisional capacity at the time of their terminal hospitalization but lose that capacity before having an end-of-life discussion.
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Patients seen in emergency departments (ED) for acute chest pain who are deemed low risk for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and relatively safe for discharge are often referred to their primary care physician (PCP) for follow-up.
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Aspirin use and AMD risk; using NSAIDs and antihypertensive agents; and FDA actions.
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Disproportionately longer time was allocated to ICU patients discussed early in attending physician handoff sessions, regardless of complexity or severity of illness.
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Aspirin therapy, as compared with placebo, significantly reduced the rate of major vascular events with improved net clinical benefit and also reduced the rate of recurrent venous thromboembolism.
