On the next chart you pick up, the triage nurse has written, "Back pain, needs med refill." What is your honest reaction? Mine, too. But after evaluating the patient, sometimes I am embarrassed that my initial reaction was negative.
Drug combinations for hypertension; tenecteplase for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; CAM most commonly used for back, neck, and arthritis pain; FDA Actions.
This issue deals with a common but often frustrating and unrewarding condition that confronts primary care physicians: fibromyalgia.
Percutaneous intervention for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) results in improvement in claudication symptoms but is complicated by a high rate of restenosis.
The ACC/AHA guidelines recommend perioperative beta blockers for those already on them, patients undergoing vascular surgery, or those having intermediate- to high-risk surgery with established coronary heart disease, or at high risk of having it.
Diabetics are known to have higher rates of restenosis after revascularization than non-diabetic subjects.
Optimal management of transmural myocardial infarction (MI) depends on rapid reperfusion of the occluded infarct artery.
