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Reviews of Research on Health-Care Acquired Infections, Glucocorticoid Therapy in COPD, and Blood-Pressure Lowering in Intracerebral Hemorrhages
September 1, 2013
Also reviewed this month: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), prophylactic penicillin and recurrent leg cellulitis, and universal ICU decolonization and MRSA, infection rates
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How Should a Patient with Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain be Treated?
April 1, 2013
Treatment includes normalizing the toxic systemic effects of the drug and minimizing the direct ischemic damage to the myocardium
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How Is SIADH Diagnosed and Managed?
July 1, 2011
KEY POINTS: Clinical assessment of volume status is often inaccurate. Acute symptomatic hyponatremia is treated with 3% hypertonic saline. Chronic hyponatremia is managed with fluid restriction and salt tablets. Vasopressin receptor antagonists might play a role in chronic hyponatremia management.
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What Is the Best Treatment of an Adult Patient with Hypercalcemia of Malignancy?
January 2, 2011
A patient with hypercalcemia must have a systematic workup, with knowledge of other causes of hypercalcemia that could be present, irrespective of malignancy.