Commentary By: Sean Cavanaugh MD, Associate Editor Clinical Correlations
Not much in the way of surprise, a lot of the articles in the press this past week focused on cardiovascular health.
In the Lancet, the results of the VALIDD trial (the acronyms …
–Commentary by Susan Morey, PharmD. Pharmacy Practice Resident
A true allergy to penicillin is known to occur in less than 10% of patients exposed to penicillin. 1, 2 The cross-reactivity to cephalosporins has been reported to be …
Commentary by Milini Sahu, MD Fellow, Division of Gastrotenterology, Gina Sam-DeRiggs, Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology, and Michael Poles MD, Â Assistant Professor, NYU Division of Gastroenterology and Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
Close to 17,000 gastroenterologists attended Digestive Disease …
A study reported in this week’s issue of JAMA attempts to correlate preoperative hematocrit levels with postoperative outcomes in elderly veterans undergoing noncardiac surgery. Both 30-day postoperative mortality and cardiac event rates increased in patients with …
Please review the posting of last week’s CPC Case here.
When you’re ready you can download the CPC Answer here.
Commentary by Vlad Fridman MD, PGY-2
$50,000. This is the price of a new (and cheap) model BMW, and also a price the US government is willing to spend to prolong your medically trained (or everyone else’s …
Commentary by Sarah Berry MD, PGY-3 and Joseph Weisstuch, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Divsion of Nephrology
Case: Mr. K is a 59 year old gentleman with a past medical history of hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, …
Welcome to our first blog commentary. One of the purposes of the blog is to generate discussion about issues in health care. This “Clinical Commentary” section is an invitation to our housestaff and faculty to submit their own thoughts and …