This maybe an old study, but will give you a sense of what antibiotics will be less favorite for your patients. Among antibiotics Amxicillin and Cefixime have the best taste. Link to article
Continue ReadingAnnals of Internal Medicine published a Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Trial and compared Oral Prednisolone in the Treatment of Acute Gout. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either indomethacin or prednisolone for 5 days. The regimen was for patients presented to the ED within 3 days of symptom onset. Indomethacin group: patients received […]
Continue ReadingJAMA Published The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) by Physicians from USA, Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, and Belgium. The reason for this new definition is the limitation of sensitivity and specificity of SIRS criteria, too much focus on inflammation cascade, and too many terms that really does not make […]
Continue ReadingFound this link in Diagnosis and also in Acad Medicine regarding Patient/Provider safety and how to reduce diagnostic error. also what to do in high risk situations. Take a look specifically for new Grad! Link to article
Continue ReadingIs it real? we had this discussion before: Aortic dissection and contrast, Vertebral artery dissection and contrast, any VTE disease and contrast. but what should be our target GFR, Cre? American College of Radiology onContrast Media in 2015 “At the current time, there is very little evidence that IV iodinated contrast material is an independent […]
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