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Elevated BAR Signals Poor Prognosis in Patients With CKD Admitted to ICU

Physician's Weekly

High blood urea nitrogen to albumin ratio values in patients with CKD are linked to greater mortality, indicating its potential value as a prognostic indicator. Adjusted Cox regression analysis confirmed the increased 28-day mortality risk in patients with a higher BAR. Compared with tertile 1, tertile 2 had a 1.49

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Modified Minerva orthosis proven helpful in pediatric patients following airway surgery

Medical Xpress

In 2008, the acute care orthotics team at Michigan Medicine received an order for a cervical orthosis (neck brace) from Glenn Green, M.D., a clinical professor of pediatric otolaryngology as well as a head and neck surgeon in Pediatric Otolaryngology at U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

As chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation, Dr. Bridges oversees coordination of national clinical quality care programs across Kaiser Permanente for its 12.6 As an experienced physician leader, she is known for always going the extra mile for our patients and colleagues. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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Exploring the Use of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine for Anxiolysis and Minimal Sedation

PEMBlog

What’s particularly interesting about dexmedetomidine is that it offers “cooperative” sedation, meaning that patients are calm and comfortable but can still respond if you need them to. This makes it different from other sedatives that might make a patient too drowsy or unresponsive. Dexmedetomidine: a review of clinical applications.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law

Palmer — The 2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act placed strict limits on online prescribing or the use of telemedicine encounters to prescribe controlled substances. a prescriber that engages in telemedicine with the patient), including a review of PDMP data for the past year. By Karla L. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §