Search results for "Contrast"
Test yourself: Insulin management
These cases and commentary, which address insulin management, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/ty.htm
15 Apr 2011
The scourge of seven on/seven off
How many soccer games have you missed because of your work schedule? How often has your spouse had to eat dinner without you?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/perspectives.htm
15 May 2011
Recent Research
Restrictive transfusions, hospice care use, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/rr.htm
15 May 2011
New gadolinium contrast agent approved
Details on approval of a new gadolinium contrast agent, a recall of certain infusion agents, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/fda.htm
15 Jun 2011
When it's not a fever
When you see a patient with a temperature of 101, what do you note in the chart? Probably, “fever,” right? Maybe not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/fever.htm
15 Jun 2011
STOPP criteria work better than Beers
Adverse drug events in elderly patients could potentially be reduced by use of the STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions) criteria, a new study suggested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/22/1.htm
22 Jun 2011
Which insulin? What drug? When?
Intensity of insulin therapy may get all the press, but there are other dilemmas in inpatient glycemic control.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/glycemia.htm
15 Jul 2011
Risk framing alters perception of benefit; doctors just as prone as patients, study finds
How risk information is posed influences perceptions of treatment benefit, with absolute survival rates creating the perception of weakest benefit and relative mortality reduction creating the perception of greatest benefit, researchers found in a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/10/5.htm
10 Aug 2011
In the News
Preventing bloodstream infections, management of unstable angina and non-ST-elevation MI, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/itn.htm
15 Aug 2011
MKSAP quiz on wounds
These cases and commentary, which address wounds, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/ty.htm
15 Aug 2011