Chief residents of the NYU Langone Internal Medicine Residency give quick-and-easy, evidence-based answers to interesting questions posed by house staff, both in their clinics and on the wards.
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The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner- 9/20/2021
September 21, 2021- Bellevue Inpatient: Which is the superior antiplatelet agent in patients with ACS treated with PCI- prasugrel or ticagrelor?
- Tisch Inpatient: What are the indications for celiac plexus block and potential complications?
- NYU Brooklyn: Is a shorter (i.e. 4 month) anti-TB regimen noninferior to the standard 6-month treatment for patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary TB?
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
September 17, 2021By Waqas Haque, MD
Peer Reviewed
With medicine advancing at such a rapid pace, it is crucial for physicians to keep up with the medical literature. This can quickly become an overwhelming endeavor given the sheer quantity and breadth of literature released on a daily basis. Primecuts helps you stay current by …
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner- 9/13/2021
September 14, 2021- Bellevue Outpatient: What is the new recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) regarding screening for Pre-Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes?
- Tisch Inpatient: What are the signs of RV strain or dysfunction on CT pulmonary angiography?
- VA Outpatient: What is the risk between use of proton pump inhibitors and risk of community-acquired pneumonia?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner- 9/6/21
September 9, 2021- Bellevue Outpatient: ACE inhibitors/ARBs- Which should one choose when initiating treatment for hypertension?
- Tisch Inpatient: What does infliximab-related infusion reaction look like?
- VA Inpatient: How often is pulmonary hypertension implicated as the etiology of dyspnea in dialysis patients?
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
September 7, 2021
By: Christopher Chornay, MD
Peer Reviewed
With medicine advancing at such a rapid pace, it is crucial for physicians to keep up with the medical literature. This can quickly become an overwhelming endeavor given the sheer …
Confessions of a former anti-vaxxer: Medicine changed my mind. How do we change more?
September 1, 2021
By Hayley Galitzer, MD
In less than a year, the medical community has gone from encountering a novel virus to developing 73 potential vaccines [1] one of which is now …
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner — 8/30/21
August 30, 2021- NYU Brooklyn: What therapies do we have for patients who are found to be pre-diabetic, and are they effective at reducing the subsequent risk of developing diabetes?
- Tisch Inpatient: When should physicians treat subclinical thyroid disorders?
- Bellevue Inpatient: Is there any utility of treating patients with non-variceal upper GI bleeding (UGIB) with octreotide?