Search results for "Physical Examination"
acp-hosp0812.qxd
Hesmokes one-half pack per day of cigarettes. On physical examination, pulse rate is 72/min, and bloodpressure is 138/85 mm Hg.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/acph-200812-test_f1.pdf
2 Dec 2008
Mindful Medicine: When diagnoses get lost in translation
Jerome Groopman, FACP and Pamela Hartzband, FACP review two cases where a patient's use of key words led to anchoring errors in diagnosing an abdominal aortic aneurism and a classic case of intermittent claudication.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/mindful.htm
15 Dec 2008
Test Yourself: Sleep disorders
Sleep disorders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/test.htm
15 Dec 2008
Delirium, treating drug resistance, fall prevention
A 75-year-old woman with a long history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is evaluated in the intensive care unit for delirium... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/test.htm
15 Jan 2009
Mindful medicine: Challenges of treating the physician-patient
Jeffrey Cohn, ACP Member, told us about a case he had seen as a hematology/oncology fellow while at Emory University.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/mindful.htm
15 Jan 2009
MKSAP: Acute pancreatitis
A 51-year-old woman is hospitalized because of the acute onset of moderately severe, constant upper abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/test.htm
15 Feb 2009
Melding intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic traps
Would you pass “the eyeball test” if the patient in this case study presented in your hospital's emergency department? Find out how one physician pressed for a better answer on a patient who presented with cardiac pain but no evidence of a heart attack.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/mindful.htm
15 Mar 2009
MKSAP: Endocrinology
A 42-year-old man is evaluated in the emergency department for a two-day history of fever, confusion, and abdominal pain... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/test.htm
15 Mar 2009
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about hand-carried ultrasound devices, LDL levels, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/journal.htm
15 Mar 2009
MKSAP: Ventricular tachycardia
The following cases and commentary, which address ventricular tachycardia, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/04/test.htm
15 Apr 2009