By Varun Subashchandran
Peer Reviewed
Heart failure is a common health condition that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The American Heart Association estimates a prevalence of 6.2 million people in the United States between 2013 and 2016.1 In an international pooled analysis of 1506 patients with chronic heart failure, …
By Elana Kreiger-Benson
Peer Reviewed
“I’m not actually planning to try it,†the patient whispered to me while I was feeling her radial pulses. We had just finished an extensive conversation with her primary care …
By Evellyn DeMitchell-Rodriguez
Peer Reviewed
It has become common practice in many hospitals and ambulatory care centers to require patients to be “Nil Per Os,†or NPO, for solids and liquids after …
By Shawn Thomas
Peer ReviewedÂ
Introduction
In 2009, Catherine Lucero published an article in Clinical Correlations titled “Therapeutic Hypothermiaâ€, describing the basis for induced hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest patients.1 The …
By Noah Rosenberg
Peer Reviewed
I walked back on a Friday afternoon from Bellevue Clinic and scrolled through my phone. One of my apps told me I had breathed in 1.4 cigarettes in …
By Stephanie E Wu, MD
Peer ReviewedÂ
You are not the only one if you find your vision becomes blurry or your eyes get irritated after hours staring at a computer screen. These symptoms may be a sign of computer vision syndrome (CVS), …
By Laura McLaughlin
Peer Reviewed
In the United States, a third of people on dialysis for kidney failure are African American, yet this population comprises only 13% of the US population.1 …
By Jad Malas
Peer Reviewed
According to a 2016 American Heart Association (AHA) report, an estimated 5.7 million Americans over the age of twenty have heart failure. The prevalence of heart failure is …