This week's morning report focused on a patient presenting with constitutional symptoms and cough in the context of vape-product use, found to have hypoxemic respiratory failure with CT findings of diffuse ground glass opacities. A thorough infectious and auto-immune work…
CURB-65: the easy-to-use clinical prediction rule helps us triage patients with pneumonia to inpatient or outpatient care. What is this actually based upon? This is the original study used to develop the CURB-65. Here are some things to think about…
Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer death, ahead of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers. However, screening strategies have been comparatively limited. This landmark article demonstrates the use of low-dose CT to screen for lung cancer, and…
What d-dimer threshold do you use to determine if a patient potentially has a pulmonary embolism? Do you adjust it according to the patient's age? Is that even valid? This prospective validation study helps answer this question: Does adjusting the…
Thank you Dr. Noah Duncan for an excellent overview of the PESIT trial (Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism among Patients Hospitalized for Syncope) Conclusions of the study: Pulmonary embolism was identified in nearly one of every 6 patients hospitalized for a…
Thank you Thomas Vu for your excellent overview of the BRIDGE trial (Perioperative Bridging Anticoagulation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation) Conclusions of the study: In patients with atrial fibrillation who had warfarin treatment interrupted for an elective operation or other elective invasive…