Sepsis Perspective

• Parenting the Addicted: Scenes From a Substance Abuse Clinic Parenting an adult child with a substance abuse problem often involves making painful choices that look senseless — or worse — to an outsider.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, December 04, 2023
• Role of Hydrocortisone, Fludrocortisone in Septic Shock Twenty years after abandoning hydro/fludro for septic shock, Dr Holley will use it again, with some reservations.
  Medscape Critical Care, November 20, 2023
• Laissez-Faire Attitude Toward Infectious Diseases? This doc read some articles recently that raised his concern about the attitude toward treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, and lack of understanding of why we treat our patients.
  MDedge, November 14, 2023
• Episode 6: Fertility, Pregnancy and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia   Drs Michael J. Mauro and Jane F. Apperley answer key questions about pregnancy and family planning for patients diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, including complications and treatment options.
  Medscape, October 24, 2023
• Atopic Dermatitis: 5 Things to Know From subtle differences in presentation to diagnostic pearls and the newest and emerging treatments, check out these 5 things to know about atopic dermatitis.
  Medscape Dermatology, October 11, 2023
• CDC's New Program Aims to Help Hospitals Combat Sepsis Medscape spoke with CDC contributors Raymund Dantes, MD, MPH, and Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc, about the new Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements to help clinicians improve outcomes from sepsis.
  CDC Expert Commentary, September 12, 2023
• When Does a Bicarb Drip Make Sense? An older woman is admitted to the ICU with acidosis, AKI, and ketonuria. Will IV bicarb help or harm?
  Medscape Critical Care, September 01, 2023
• Episode 5: Complicated Pediatric Pneumonia   Drs Todd A. Florin and Debra Palazzi discuss complicated pediatric pneumonia: what it is, how to diagnose it, and how to manage it.
  Medscape, August 10, 2023
• A Step Forward in Diabetic Foot Disease Management The updated 2023 International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot guidelines serve as a "valuable compass" in treating patients with diabetic foot ulcers.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 08, 2023
• Death Is Not the Enemy Humans seem all too willing to embrace the harmful behaviors that can bring on premature death, the real foe.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, June 26, 2023
• Is Long COVID Really 'Long Everything'?   Long COVID is real, but whether this syndrome is a unique sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection is another question.
  Medscape, June 21, 2023
• Episode 6: J-Pouch Care: Disorders and Complications   Pouch expert Dr Laura Raffals joins Dr Sunanda Kane to deep-dive into patient care after J-pouch surgery. Topics include pouchitis, Crohn's of the pouch, pelvic floor dysfunction, and pregnancy.
  Medscape, June 20, 2023
• Episode 3: Vaccines and Pediatric Pneumonia   Drs Todd A. Florin and Richard Malley discuss the history, challenges, and future directions of pneumococcal vaccination, including expanding serotype coverage and methods of worldwide distribution.
  Medscape, June 07, 2023
• Episode 1: The Diagnosis of Pediatric Pneumonia   Drs Todd A. Florin and Mark I. Neuman discuss the challenge of diagnosing pediatric pneumonia, misdiagnosis, overlapping clinical symptoms, and clinical prediction models to reduce x-ray utilization.
  Medscape, May 04, 2023
• Apr 28 2023 This Week in Cardiology   Two studies of cardiac device infections, observational studies, RCTs, and our ways of knowing in Medicine are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD in this week's podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 28, 2023
• S2 Episode 1: Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia   Drs John M. Kane and Jonathan Meyer discuss treatment-resistant schizophrenia, how common it is, how to detect and manage it, and how delays in the initiation of treatment negatively affect patients.
  Medscape, March 22, 2023
• SCCM 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from SCCM 2023
  Medscape Critical Care, January 30, 2023
• Case : Child With Fever, Neck Pain, Abdominal Pain, Rash Can you make the right diagnosis when a child presents with fever, neck and abdominal pain, and a rash?
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 20, 2022
• What's the Optimal Temp Management After Cardiac Arrest? Early adopters, beware of the litany of therapies that fail the scrutiny of multiple large RCTs.
  Medscape Critical Care, September 29, 2022
• Medical Misinformation Harms Us All Medical misinformation threatens the health of us all, especially when healthcare providers are part of the problem.
  Medscape Blogs, September 29, 2022