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Advance Care Planning With and Without an Annual Wellness Visit
If performed and documented appropriately, advance care planning can now be billed by the emergency provider in addition to an evaluation and management level.
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New Tool Improves Processes, Streamlines Operations
A one-page aid facilitates shared decision-making, improves patient knowledge, and leads to more efficient use of resources in low-risk chest pain patients.
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Targeting Common Pain Syndromes With Non-Opioid Alternatives
It takes a hospital to prevent acute pain from becoming chronic.
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ECG Review: SVT in a 13-Year-Old Patient
The ECG in the figure below was obtained from an otherwise healthy 13-year-old boy. He was alert and hemodynamically stable at the time this ECG was recorded. How should one interpret this tracing?
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: comparing blood pressure monitoring techniques; DPP4 agents and heart failure; identifying at-risk groups for hypoglycemia.
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Infliximab-dyyb for Injection (Inflectra)
Infliximab-dyyb offers another, possibly less expensive, option for treatment of a number of autoimmune conditions.
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Early Chest CT Can Improve Treatment for Community-acquired Pneumonia
In patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia, early chest CT significantly changed management decisions.
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Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole vs. Placebo for Skin Abscesses After Incision and Drainage
A multicenter, double-blind, randomized, clinical trial found that a seven-day course of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole following incision and drainage (I&D) resulted in a higher rate of cure for skin abscesses compared to I&D and placebo.
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Association of Seafood Consumption and Brain Mercury Levels with Brain Neuropathology
Although moderate seafood consumption was correlated with higher brain levels of mercury, these levels were not correlated with brain neuropathology.
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WHO Beats CDC Handrub Method for Less Bacteria
A recent study of two techniques for hand hygiene using an alcohol-based handrub found that the six-step method by the World Health Organization is superior to the three-step method by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.