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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. Am I at risk for complications due to my medical history? If chest congestion is severe, prolonged, or caused by an infection, doctors may prescribe medicine to speed up recovery and avoid complications. What warning signs should I watch for?

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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. If available at your institution, urine NGAL, Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin, is an excellent early marker for acute kidney injury (as this protein is released directly by the kidney).

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Like getting a donor, doing all the different tests, making sure there’s not going be an interaction. Eric: But if the Practical Geriatric Assessment was a lab test, everybody would get it. And so, we can only cover so much, and there’s a lot… Especially if you’re thinking about allo transplants.