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Natural History of Asymptomatic Renal Stones Before RC

Physician's Weekly

The primary endpoints were 90-day postoperative complications, stone-related adverse events (AEs), and spontaneous stone passage (SSP) during follow-up. Preoperative CT scans were analyzed to identify those with asymptomatic renal stones. Stones were mostly located in the lower pole (48%) and least in the renal pelvis (12%).

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. Crucial that we fix this. Absolutely. How do we fix this?

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

This may mean you’re not getting enough oxygen, which can cause serious complications. Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. Am I at risk for complications due to my medical history? Receiving treatment quickly can make a life-saving difference.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #3: It’s a Small World

PEMBlog

Initially, the patient was self-inflicting trauma to the eye with his thumb. Since then, patient has had progressive eyelid swelling leading to the inability to open the right eye altogether. The patient has had no fever, decreased appetite, emesis, cough, congestion, known foreign body in the eye, or chemical exposure.

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Frailty Triples Odds of More Severe RSV Illness

Physician's Weekly

Frail patients often have compromised immune responses, which increases their vulnerability to infections and reduces their ability to recover from acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs), including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the researchers continued. Data came from the three influenza seasons from 2012 to 2015.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Summary Transcript Summary. AlexSmithMD.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.