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This paper reviews the most common injuries related to winter sports. Over the past decades, there has been an increase in the variety of winter sports, as well as increased participation by individuals at all levels of fitness. There have also been some improvements made that reduce injuries. For example, breakaway ski boots have reduced the number of tibia and ankle fractures. With some sports becoming more dangerous with jumps and aerial moves, helmets are beginning to be more common, but sadly not fast enough.
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Rheumatologic and autoimmune disease patients often present with very complex manifestations that can be confusing and challenging to accurately diagnose. Clinicians increasingly depend on both common and arcane laboratory testing to facilitate arriving at a confident final diagnosis, even though most diagnoses are made through thorough history taking and careful physical examination.
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Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
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The ECG shown above was obtained from an acutely ill but alert and hemodynamically stable patient. How certain are you that the rhythm is ventricular tachycardia (VT)? Might there be another explanation if the patient in question was a young adult with renal disease and diabetes?
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The distress felt by patients with recurring bouts of Clostridium difficile diarrhea is so acute that they welcome the opportunity to accept anothers feces to bring them back to baseline. There have been more than 30 publications on the topic since it was first introduced in 1958,1 most of them in the last 10 years.
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Risks and Benefits of an Extended 10-year Tamoxifen Regimen for Breast Cancer; Is There More Pro than Con in Probiotics in Critically Ill Adults?; The ASH Position Paper on Orthostatic Hypotension
