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- Should we still be using theophylline to treat asthma?
With better drugs available, theophylline has been relegated to fourth-line status.
- Update on peripheral vascular diseases: From smoking cessation to stenting
Despite advances, the two most important treatments remain the same: stopping smoking and starting a walking program.
Should the actual or the corrected serum sodium be used to calculate the anion gap in diabetic ketoacidosis?The two values have different uses: use the measured value to calculate the anion gap and the corrected value to assess dehydration.
- Myocardial infarction in a 24-year-old woman
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- Prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers: What works? What doesn’t?
Although pressure ulcers continue to confound our best efforts, their incidence can be reduced and their healing can be speeded.
- Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in acute respiratory failure: Does it improve outcomes?
Why insert an endotracheal tube when a mask may do?
- Heat illness: Tips for recognition and treatment
Heat stroke is an acute, life-threatening emergency. Early recognition and rapid cooling are essential.
- Trends in hospital medicine: Hospitalist advantages revealed
Available data indicate that hospitalists reduce health care costs while providing care of at least equal quality to that provided by primary care physicians.
How should hyperuricemia be treated in a patient with allopurinol hypersensitivity?If other methods of lowering uric acid fail, desensitization to allopurinol is an option but poses serious risks.