Search results for "Pancreatitis"
New tool helps differentiate acute lung injury, cardiogenic pulmonary edema
A simple prediction score may help distinguish patients with acute lung injury from those with cardiogenic pulmonary edema in the early stages of illness.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/11/02/3.htm
2 Nov 2011
Test yourself: Alcohol abuse
These cases and commentary, which address alcohol abuse, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/ty.htm
15 Dec 2010
Recent Research
Scores for predicting pneumonia and hemorrhage after ischemic stroke, update on managing unstable cardiac conditions, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/12/rr.htm
15 Dec 2012
They read the literature so you don't have to
COPD, stroke and drug choice were among the hot topics in hospital medicine research last year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/literature.htm
15 Jul 2011
Postprocedural respiratory failure
How to properly make and document the diagnosis of respiratory failure following surgery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/coding-postprocedural-respiratory-failure.htm
15 Jul 2017
Cholesterol embolism syndrome
An aging population requiring invasive vascular imaging and procedures is at increased risk for this syndrome. Learn how to recognize it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/expert.htm
15 Apr 2011
Individual case: Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
A patient presented to the ED with recent fever and rectal pain with a small amount of bleeding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/brief-case-individual-ttp.htm
15 Nov 2019
Cases from New York University
Acute intermittent porphyria, thrombotic microangiopathy complicating chemotherapy, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/07/the-brief-case-new-york-university.htm
15 Jul 2016
MKSAP: Infectious diseases
The following cases and commentary, which address infectious diseases, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/06/test.htm
15 Jun 2009
When it's not a fever
When you see a patient with a temperature of 101, what do you note in the chart? Probably, “fever,” right? Maybe not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/fever.htm
15 Jun 2011