- Bellevue Clinic: In patients taking a beta blocker for uncomplicated hypertension, what is the best way to taper it off?
- Gouverneur Clinic: Are bisphosphonates safe and effective in patients who are vitamin D deficient?
- Manhattan VA: What is the difference between calcium chloride and calcium gluconate?
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Clinical Correlations
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 10/28/19
October 28, 2019Being an outstanding physician and lifelong learner requires stoking the flames of clinical curiosity. In Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner (CIC) we attempt to succinctly answer actual clinical questions that have been raised on the wards and in the clinics of NYU’s teaching hospitals. Our answers are not meant to be all …
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 10/14/19
October 14, 2019- Bellevue Hospital: How much epi??
- Manhattan VA Hospital: How reliable are ECG findings in hyperkalemia?
- Bellevue Clinic: How much subcutaneous insulin can be given in a single dose?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 10/2/2019
October 7, 2019- Bellevue Hospital: Why do surgeons classically use hematocrit over hemoglobin?
- Gouverneur Clinic: How useful is CA-125 in the evaluation of a woman with a suspicious ovarian mass?
- VA Clinic: Is there any benefit to giving the recombinant herpes zoster vaccine (RZV, Shingrix) to patients who have already experienced an episode of herpes zoster?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 9/23/19
September 23, 2019- Bellevue Clinic: How accurate is a point-of-care hemoglobin A1c? Can it be used to diagnose diabetes?
- Gouverneur Clinic: What is Brainerd diarrhea?
- Manhattan VA Hospital: Should neurohormonal blockade be discontinued in patients whose ejection fractions recover?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 9/16/19
September 16, 2019- Gouverneur Clinic: What is the role of free testosterone testing in the workup of suspected male hypogonadism?
- Bellevue Clinic: Do total testosterone assays offer reliable and accurate measurements of testosterone in men with hypogonadism?
- Bellevue Hospital: Can we accurately predict which patients are at highest risk for severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 9/9/2019
September 9, 2019- VA Clinic: Why treat proteinuria in non-diabetic CKD?
- Bellevue Hospital: In patients with functional mitral regurgitation, who should be referred for percutaneous valve repair?
- Manhattan VA Hospital: Do inflammatory markers remain elevated in patients with well-controlled HIV?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner 9/3/2019
September 3, 2019- Tisch/Kimmel: Are all criteria for LVH diagnosis on ECG created equal?
- NYU Brooklyn: What is the role of lung volume reduction surgery in COPD?
- Bellevue Clinic: Is routine, repeated testing of transaminases necessary with oral terbinafine for onychomycosis?