Clinical Review

Tackling Adverse Reactions to Local Anesthetics

This patient wanted to undergo an important procedure that required local anesthesia. With his history of an adverse reaction to such medication,...

There’s general agreement that screening for alcohol abuse or dependence is an important part of PTSD treatment, but is the screening occurring—...

For patients with necrotizing fasciitis, short stays in the emergency department (ED) and early operations may be crucial factors in limiting in-...

Geriatricians shouldn’t trust the medication lists provided by their patients’ general practitioners (GPs) or pharmacies—and they should be on the...

Months before this patient’s near collapse, the metabolic derangements caused by his cancer manifested in his marriage.

This study compared the effects of an instructor-directed, web-based education program with those of a conventional education program on the self-...

Author:: Ruser CB; Sellinger JJ; Carbone V; Bucci L; Hay S; Kashaf SS; Heapy AA; Frantsve LE; McKinnon J; Samuel VT; Dallas MI; Rosenberger PH

With overweight or obesity leading to the premature death of one in 10 people in the United States, the VA has initiated a national campaign...

The number of prior hospitalizations for cardiac events is a “simple but powerful predictor” of mortality risk for patients with heart failure,...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) provides a number of variables—such as 24-hour blood pressure (BP) and pulse pressure, abnormal sleep...

An immunocompetent patient living in an endemic area presented with headache, weakness, gait instability, and weight loss. Brain imaging showed...