During Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, volunteer health care professionals quickly improvised a new system, often without institutional authorization, to continue to care for terrified patients.
A dying patient in a state psychiatric hospital has no access to a DNR order that would make the process as peaceful as possible — as the notorious Bedlam casts a shadow over mental health care to ...
A 46-year-old man with CKD presented with a 2-year history of painless shortening and rounding of the fingertips. Radiographs of the hands showed resorption of the terminal tufts of all the distal ...
I first treated a patient with leukemia with the so-called “7+3” regimen (a 7-day continuous infusion of cytarabine plus three daily infusions of an anthracycline, usually daunorubicin) 1 more than 50 ...
Whether catheter-directed thrombolysis improves clinical outcomes in patients with intermediate-high–risk pulmonary embolism, ...
In patients with syncope who present to the emergency department for evaluation, diagnosing an underlying cardiac arrhythmia ...
Approximately one half of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) have concomitant coronary artery ...
Pulmonary hypertension that is caused by left heart disease and is associated with heart failure may be driven by sympathetic ...
Patients are at increased risk for recurrent ischemic events after an acute coronary syndrome event. Milvexian, an oral ...
Atherosclerosis may begin in early adulthood and remain clinically silent for decades before cardiovascular disease manifests. Although silent atherosclerosis is associated with cardiovascular ...