A Critical Care Frequent Flyer: Stroke

We discussed an informative and interesting review article on stroke management in October’s Critical Care Minifellowship meeting. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062315/ This article highlights some important points (that shed light on how complicated the brain truly is) and touches upon some interesting neurological trials.  A few points to mention are: –       The idea of Read more…

Morning Report: Medical Therapies for Stable Upper GI Bleeding

Here’s Dr. Aluisio with today’s Morning Report!     Medical Therapies for Stable Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Risk, Benefit and Equivocality   Epidemiology • Incidence: 40-150 per 100,000 per annum, with 450,000 hospitalizations in the USA • Causes: peptic ulcer (~45%); gastro-duodeno-esophagitis (25%); varicies (~15%) Other (Mallory-Weiss tear, tumor, angiodysplasia, aorto-enteric fistula) Read more…