CHEST journal Published a systematic review and meta analysis regarding Risk Stratification of Patients With Acute Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism Based on Presence or Absence of Lower Extremity DVT. In this review, in patients diagnosed with acute symptomatic PE, concomitant DVT was significantly associated with an increased risk of death within 30 days of PE diagnosis. Link […]
Continue ReadingThere are a lot of controversies around this topic, but It sounds like lowering blood pressure is safe, the following Stroke link recommend SBP 140 is safe, I am not sure the exact number or acceptable number to drop BP but obviously, we should not be worried to drop SBP in hypertensive hemorrhagic stroke as […]
Continue ReadingWhat is your choice to treat chronic joint pain? I know! It is very frustrating for patients and physicians, I took 800mg of Motrin but… and you know Narcotics wont do anything with pain. Lancet in a meta-analysis compared NSAIDs, Acetaminophen, or placebo. They concluded that Diclofenac 150 mg/day is the most effective NSAID available […]
Continue ReadingI would like to quote this again from Dr. Oslser “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”. Are we following him? We did not go to medical school to being uncomfortable, we went to medical school to be comfortable , but I don’t think that we […]
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