This Teachable Moment describes an 87-year-old man who underwent fatal complications from the use of benzocaine spray for nasopharyngeal anesthesia before the insertion of a nasogastric tube.
This Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses target trial emulation, including why to use it, limitations of the method, and how to interpret target trial emulation findings.
This Teachable Moment discusses initiation, optimization, and long-term use of buprenorphine in man with an opioid use disorder.
This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes design, interpretation, and examples of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.
This Teachable Moment discusses a woman in her 60s with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, and smoking history who presented with bilateral, aching leg pain triggered by walking and relieved by rest.
This case report describes a 57-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease who was receiving hemodialysis through a tunneled central venous catheter and had severe hyperkalemia that prompted admission for emergent hemodialysis.
This case report describes the electrocardiagram findings of a patient in their 60s with chest tightness and dyspnea, left ventricular systolic impairment, and elevated troponin I levels.
This Teachable Moment discusses guideline-directed medical therapy intolerance in a woman in her 80s with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.
This Teachable Moment describes a 66-year-old woman with mild dysuria, vulvar discomfort, and recurrent urinary tract infections.
This case report describes a woman in her early 60s who went into cardiac arrest immediately after administration of an echocardiogram contrast agent.
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