Critical Care
- The ABCs of managing systolic heart failure: Past, present, and future
Digitalis, diuretics, and bedrest have given way to neurohormonal blockade and physical rehabilitation.
- Evolution of heart failure management: Miles to go
Despite progress, too many patients still suffer, too many die too young, and the costs are still too great.
- A guide to managing acute liver failure
Transfer to intensive care, start specific treatment depending on the cause, and consider transplant.
- Pseudomembranous colitis: Not always Clostridium difficile
Other causes include other infections, ischemia, medications, and inflammatory mucosal diseases.
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adults: A practical guide for internists
Principles, patient selection, monitoring, and complications of this form of life support.
- Treating and preventing acute exacerbations of COPD
Corticosteroids, antibiotics, and bronchodilators are the cornerstones of prevention and treatment.
- When we need to remember that it is more than a job
It is the nature of our engagement with our patients and our colleagues that makes what we do more than a job.
- It is not the critic’s voice that should count
Lawsuits often confront physicians with incidental imperfections in the care they provided or with errors in their documentation.
- The emotional impact of a malpractice suit on physicians: Maintaining resilience
Resilient people can face reality, see a better future, put things into perspective, and bounce back from adversity.
- Alcohol withdrawal syndrome in medical patients
Deprived of alcohol while in the hospital, many alcoholic patients go into withdrawal. Clinicians should be ready.