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  • A Review of Preoperative Clinic Cardiology Referrals for Adults Undergoing Intermediate- and Low-Risk Surgery
    Susan Calderwood, MD, Jennifer Lee Morse, MS and Damon R. Michaels, CCRP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2011, 78 (3 esuppl 1) eS23;
  • Summit Faculty
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2011, 78 (3 esuppl 1) eS1-eS3;
  • Exercises for air travel
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 121-122;
  • How should one investigate a chronic cough?
    Ryu P.H. Tofts, MBChB, Gustavo Ferrer, MD and Eduardo Oliveira, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 84-89; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.77a.10033

    First, take the history, perform a physical examination, and order a chest radiograph.

  • Reviewers 2010
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 134;
  • Goal-directed antihypertensive therapy: Lower may not always be better
    Edward J. Filippone, MD, Andrew Foy, MD and Eric Newman, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 123-133; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10101

    At least 16 trials have been done in which patients were randomly assigned different blood pressure goals. Surprisingly, they did not show that a lower target offered significant clinical benefit, and they suggest the potential for harm.

  • Hypertension: Don’t worry about the J curve—treat the patient
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 74; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78b.11002

    Concerns over being too aggressive remain theoretical. A far greater problem is that we are still not successfully treating hypertension to even a conservative target.

  • MAO inhibitors (December 2010)
    David Keller, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 81; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.02003

    A reader comments on the use of monoamine oxidase inhibitors to treat depression (December 2010) and on the treatment of gout in patients with chronic kidney disease (December 2010).

  • In reply: Gout and chronic kidney disease (December 2010)
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD and Hossam El-Zawawy, MD, MS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 81-82; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.02002
  • Airway pressure release ventilation: An alternative mode of mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome
    Ariel Modrykamien, MD, Robert L. Chatburn, MHHS, RRT-NPS and Rendell W. Ashton, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2011, 78 (2) 101-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10032

    This mode may be useful in situations in which the lungs need to be recruited (reinflated) and held open.

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