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- Intensive care update: Seven studies that should change your practice
Some of these studies lay to rest widely used but ineffective therapies; others challenge us to establish new standards of care.
Which medications should be held before a pharmacologic or exercise stress test?This depends on the reason for the rest, whether the patient can safely do without the medication, and the type of test.
- Update on kidney transplantation: Increasing clinical success, expanding waiting lists
Success rates are improving, but the need for organs continues to far exceed the supply.
- Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A common but mystifying cause of heart failure
In most cases, dilated cardiomyopathy has no known That shouldn’t stop you from looking for one.
Intravenous or oral steroids: Which is better for acute exacerbations of asthma or COPD?For asthma, oral steroids appear to be as effective as intravenous. For COPD, we have less evidence.
- ACE inhibitors vs ARBs: Is one class better for heart failure?
A patient who apparently cannot tolerate ACE inhibitors presents with worsening heart failure. What should be the next step?
