PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. These neurological manifestations suggest hypertensive encephalopathy, a form of end-organ damage.

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Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024. So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. Available from: [link] Pediatrics in Review Heather L. Daniels, Camille Sabella; Bordetella pertussis (Pertussis).

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IT Vaccination Diagnosis Complication 52