Geriatrics
- Medical, ethical, and legal aspects of end-of-life dilemmas in the intensive care unit
Three hypothetical cases elucidate medical, ethical, and legal considerations in common end-of-life situations encountered in the ICU.
- How do you effectively evaluate the elderly for alcohol use disorder?
A brief review of clues to an underrecognized and underdiagnosed problem with physical as well as emotional and social consequences.
- Antiobesity drug therapy: An individualized and comprehensive approach
As part of a comprehensive plan, these drugs can provide lasting obesity control and additional health benefits, including decreased cardiovascular risk.
- The obesity paradox in heart failure: What is the role of cardiorespiratory fitness?
What should these patients be advised about weight management and about cardiorespiratory fitness, a major factor influencing the paradox?
- ‘Guidelines to Practice’ series: Asthma in adults
A clinically useful summary, highlighting the practical and newer conceptual aspects of the guidelines.
- Outpatient management of asthma in adults: A snapshot of the 2020 GINA report
A review of the guidelines, with a focus on what’s new and clinically important.
- Heightening awareness of blistering disorders
The spectrum of associated disorders ranges from annoying to life-threatening.
- New bullous lesions in a 72-year-old woman
Her history included psoriasis, chronic lower-extremity edema, and hypertension.
- Dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention: Personalize the duration
A review of current guidelines on the duration of therapy and perioperative management.
- Recognizing a retirement, and a calcium deposition syndrome
Personnel changes at CCJM, and underrecognition of calcium deposition in the cervical spine.