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Fast Facts: Traumatic Bladder Rupture

PEMBlog

To diagnose bladder rupture, CT cystography is the preferred diagnostic test. Clinical signs of bladder injury are nonspecific. 2014 Aug;192(2):327-35. Epub 2014 May 20. Additionally, when the bladder is full, it can ascend into the abdomen, rendering it more susceptible to damage from blunt forces. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2014.05.004.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

It was launched in 2014 as an iOS app , available in 6 languages, and among others, it offers an on-the-go skincare assessment tool as first-step guidance on skincare concerns. It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Is my sore throat contagious?

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Eric: Let’s say I have a panel of older adults that I’m seeing, or a palliative care outpatient clinic. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. On clinical presentation. Available from: [link] Rice GM, Steiner RD.

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

PEMBlog

It was inspired by a hot-off-the-presses publication from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) focused on clinical decision rules for cervical spine imaging in children. 2014 May;133(5):e1179-88. If they have no pain in the midline with any of these movements, then the cervical spine is clinically cleared.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. Eric: Whenever I hear about for-profit, non-for-profit, the differences between them, mostly everybody turns to, I think, your 2014 paper looking at the differences between for-profit and non-for-profit. What motivated you? Lauren: Yeah.

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