An Elderly Woman with Life-Threatening Abdominal Pain.
Published in The American journal of medicine
From Panic to Promise: Harnessing Medical Student Leadership in COVID-19.
Published in The American journal of medicine
An Old Ally to Address the 'Triple Threat'.
Published in The American journal of medicine
External Validation of a Laboratory Prediction Algorithm for the Reduction of Unnecessary Labs in the Critical Care Sett...
Published in The American journal of medicine
Unnecessary laboratory tests contribute to iatrogenic harm and are a major source of waste in the health care system. We previously developed a machine learning algorithm to help clinicians identify unnecessary laboratory tests, but it has not been externally validated. In this study, we externally validate our machine learning algorithm. To extern...
Health Care Professional Mental Health and Supporting the Second Victim - Can Organizations Across the World Do Better?
Published in The American journal of medicine
Braden Skin Score Subdomains Predict Mortality Among Cardiac Intensive Care Patients.
Published in The American journal of medicine
The Braden Skin Score (BSS) is a bedside nursing assessment that may be a measure of frailty and predicts mortality among patients in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). We examined the association between each of the 6 individual BSS subscores with hospital mortality in patients in the CICU. We hypothesized that BSS subscores reflecting patien...
Rapidly Progressive Hair Loss May Be the Only Sign of Syphilis.
Published in The American journal of medicine
Accurate Estimation of Right-Filling Pressure Using Handheld Ultrasound Score in Patients with Heart Failure.
Published in The American journal of medicine
This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of bedside assessment of inferior vena cava (IVC) and right internal jugular (RIJ) vein in predicting right atrial (RA) pressure in heart failure patients. We prospectively studied 124 heart failure patients who were referred to our catheterization laboratory for right heart catheterizations to assess hemody...
Targeted Hypothermia vs Targeted Normothermia in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of R...
...Published in The American journal of medicine
The role of targeted hypothermia in patients with coma after cardiac arrest has been challenged in a recent randomized clinical trial. We performed a computerized search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases through July 2021 for randomized trials evaluating the outcomes of targeted hypothermia vs normothermia in patients with coma after cardi...
Advances in Science Are Not Linear; They Are Zigzag.
Published in The American journal of medicine
