PEMBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. F), HR 140, RR 12, BP 104/67, sat 99% on room air The patient was crying and appeared uncomfortable Moist mucous membranes. Patients often describe a sensation of burning or stinging pain rather than itching.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. The patient has had improving activity and energy since his fall and initial ED evaluation 2 weeks prior. What’s the Diagnosis? This patient had a subsequent brain MRI that also revealed papilledema.

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FDA Law

JUNE 3, 2025

We noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had explained in its 2021 Gulf Med Pharmacy decision that prescribing red flags do not prohibit pharmacies from filling a prescription but are potential signs of diversion or risks to patient harm that pharmacists must resolve before filling. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec. and tramadol 50 mg.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. This case was submitted by Dr. At that point, he was referred to pulmonology who started the patient on albuterol, manual chest physiotherapy, and a steroid inhaler with a plan for a fourth chest x-ray four weeks later.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 26, 2022

Component 1 was a disease state component – identified as “The Journey Forward: Ryan Murphy” or “The Journey Forward: Allysa Seely.” (Note that Allysa Seely is a Paralympian gold medal triathlete, and swimmer Ryan Murphy is a 2016 Olympian and gold medalist.)

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

The PFO was identified in 749 patients (5.4%), who were generally younger and had fewer risk factors compared to non-PFO patients (all P value < 0.05). per 1,00,000 inhabitants/year. The results showed that 13,780 individuals experienced ischemic stroke, with a crude annual incidence of 30.3 per 1,00,000 inhabitants/year.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Determine the epidemiological trends for patients infected with N. Population Studied – The Vizient® Clinical Data Base was queried for inpatient discharges between January 2016 and February 2024 with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for naegleriasis (B60.2). Study Design and Setting: Retrospective case series.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Despite the emphasis on U=U as a key HIV prevention strategy since 2016, none of the included studies explicitly described U=U or U=U messaging as an intervention component,” the researchers wrote. PW: How can clinicians improve the care of these patients? Patients are in a very vulnerable state when they enter the healthcare setting.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

FDA conducted the eight-factor scheduling analysis required by the CSA in 2016 and found that marijuana continued to meet the scheduling criteria for remaining in schedule I. 12, 2016); Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Sociodemographic factors and patient characteristics raise the risk for corneal hydrops in keratoconus and lower the odds of corneal crosslinking. The retrospective study included 762 patients with unstable keratoconus diagnosed at Mass Eye and Ear between January 2016 and October 2022. in control patients.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Early diagnosis is crucial as it can impact a child’s growth and development. Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. Tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in children: incidence and patient characteristics. 2016 Apr;83:78-83. 2005 Nov;128(5):3391-7.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Alex: Okay.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. Four percent. But that was separate from MAID.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

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. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. Available from: [link] Rice GM, Steiner RD.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations. Why do this?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

We start by talking with Robert Brody, an internist who recalls physicians helping patients die during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.

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