Submissions from 2013
Keys to communicating about prognosis in the ICU: A multicenter study of family, provider, and expert perspectives, Jay Steingrub MD
Esomeprazole induced hypomagnesemia, parathyroid hormone resistance and tetany, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD
COOMBS negative hemolytic anemia - Where blood transfusion is not always the solution, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD and T. Vijay Gadiraju MD
Effect of a dietitian-managed bone algorithm on serum phosphorus level in maintenance hemodialysis patients., Stephen Sweet MD
Do physicians under-recognize obesity?, Rachana Thapa MD
Effect of eritoran, an antagonist of MD2-TLR4, on mortality in patients with severe sepsis: The ACCESS randomized trial, Mark Tidswell MD
Acute kidney injury due to intravenous bleach injection., Ashish Verma MD
Should we do more to improve oral contraceptive continuation?, Jacqueline White MD
Why gender-specific medicine matters in the emergency department, Jeannette Wolfe MD
Impaired mitochondrial metabolism and mammary carcinogenesis, Nagendra Yadava PhD, Sallie Schneider PhD, D. Joseph Jerry, and Chul Kim
Meat And Cola: An Esophageal Bezoar Treated by a Novel, Inexpensive Approach, Adam Adler MD, Neil Connelly MD, and Abistanand Ankam MD
Transgastric laparoscopic band erosion, Jane An MD and Eckart Sachsse MD
Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for pediatric abusive head trauma., Stephen Boos MD
Strategies for Multivessel Revascularization in Patients with Diabetes, Frederick Conlin MD
Monitoring equipment for endoscopy, David Desilets MD
Review of: Strategies for multivessal revascularization in patients with diabetes, Stanlies D'Souza MD
Distinguishing benign from malignant mesothelial cells in effusions by Glut-1, EMA, and Desmin expression: an evidence-based approach, Roxanne Florence MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Paul Visintainer, and Christopher Otis MD
Handoffs in labor and delivery: Can we do better?, Sarah Goff MD, Alex Knee, Daniel Grow MD, and Fadi Bsat MD
Avoiding Hiroshima in your emergency department patients: Reducing radiation in ED imaging, Marc Haber MD
Unusual emergency imaging studies that are unusually helpful, Marc Haber MD
Asymptomatic microscopic hematuria in women requires separate guidelines, Oz Harmanli MD
Improvement in headaches with continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnea: A retrospective analysis, Karin Johnson MD and Jane Garb
Fatigued but not intellectually compromised, Adam Kellogg MD
Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: Retrospective cohort study, Peter Lindenauer MD, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Jill Avrunin, and Penny Pekow
Failure to deliver ICD shocks after a failed discharge despite redetection of rapid ventricular tachycardia? What is the cause?, John Marenco MD
No diversion in Western Massachusetts, Niels Rathlev MD, Fidela Blank, Benjamin Osborne MD, Adam Kellogg MD, Haiping Li, John Santoro MD, and Paul Visintainer
Ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous access program is associated with a marked reduction in central venous catheter use in noncritically ill emergency department patients, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD
Eosinophilia and rash, Liza Smith MD
Peri-implant primary squamous cell carcinoma: a case report with 5 years' follow-up, Michael Spink MD
Epidemiology and outcomes of acute respiratory failure in the United States, 2001 to 2009: a national survey, Mihaela Stefan MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, Jay Steingrub MD, Tara Lagu MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD
Antibiotics, QT prolongation and torsade…oh my!, Susan Torrey MD
Not every atrial fib needs to be admitted, Susan Torrey MD
Busting the myths of the emergency medicine gender gap, Jeannette Wolfe MD
Clinical practice. Alcohol use in adults., Peter D. Friedmann
Long term disability evaluations for private insurers, Stuart Anfang MD
AM last page: A snapshot of three common program evaluation approaches for medical education, Rebecca Blanchard PhD
Rescue shock timing and outcomes during the metabolic phase of ventricular fibrillation, Ryan Coute, Timothy Mader MD, Scot Millay MD, and Adam Kellogg MD
Renal artery stenosis: Prevalence of, risk factors for, and management of in-stent stenosis, Barbara Greco MD
Coronary perfusion pressure response to intraosseous administration after prolonged cardiac arrest, Joshua Harris MD, Ryan Coute, Adam Kellogg MD, Scot Millay MD, and Timothy Mader MD
The association between ICU readmission rate and patient outcomes, Thomas Higgins MD
Facing dementia: integrating palliation into all aspects of care, Allison Kostrzewa RN
A mixed-methods analysis of patient reviews of hospital care in England: Implications for public reporting of health care quality data in the United States, Tara Lagu MD, Nicholas Hannon, Amy Shatz, and Peter Lindenauer MD
A blinded evaluation of combination drug therapy for prolonged ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD, Ryan Coute, Scot Millay MD, and Adam Kellogg MD
Major depression and PTSD in pregnant smokers enrolled in Nicotine Gum Treatment Trial., Heather Sankey MD
Childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder, Barry Sarvet MD
Systemic inflammation associated with mechanical ventilation among extremely preterm infants, Bhavesh Shah MD
50 Gastrointestinal Cases and Associated Imaging, Abdullah Shaikh MD, Syed Hussain MD, David Desilets MD, and Tara Catanzano MD
Adherence to practice guidelines for atypical glandular cells on cervical cytology, Kathryn Sharpless MD
Talking with patients about dying., Gurmukteshwar Singh MD
Respiratory distress, Liza Smith MD
Association between antibiotic treatment and outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute exacerbation of COPD treated with systemic steroids, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD
Aortic valve endocarditis due to lactobacillus casei complicated by stroke and vertebral osteomyelitis: A case report, Durane Walker MD and Armando Paez MD
Submissions from 2012
Misleading indexed hemodynamic parameters: the clinical importance of discordant BMI and BSA at extremes of weight, Adam Adler MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and William McGee MD
American Society for Apheresis white paper: considerations for medical staff apheresis medicine physician credentialing and privileging., Chester Andrzejewski MD
How to overcome barriers and establish a successful home HD program., Gregory Braden MD
Gangrene from finger pricking, Saurabh Dahiya MD, Michael Voisine MD, and Aashish Samat MD
Prosthetic mesh contamination during NOTES(®) transgastric hernia repair: A randomized controlled trial with swine explants, David Earle MD, John Romanelli MD, Philip Omotosho MD, Peter Wu MD, Connie Rossini MD, Hannah Swayze-Quinn MD, and David Desilets MD
Pursuing permanent hemodialysis vascular access in patients with a poor prognosis: juxtaposing potential benefit and harm, Michael Germain MD
The impact of increasing the upper age limit of donation on the eligible blood donor population in Canada., Michael Germain MD
Exercise training improves HR responses and VÿO2peak in predialysis kidney patients, Michael Germain MD and Sheila Sullivan
The SVV-SV relationship during one lung ventilation, Charles Gibson RN, Adam Adler MD, William McGee MD, Gary Hochheiser MD, and Rose Ganim MD
Bar-code verification: Reducing but not eliminating medication errors, Philip Henneman MD, Fidela Blank, and Elizabeth Henneman
Promoting Antifungal Stewardship as a Means of Optimizing the Management of Invasive Fungal Infections, Patrick Lee MD
Update on HIV PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis), Thomas Lincoln MD
Endovascular management of hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm, Marvin Morris MD
Overcoming the obstacles to research during residency: What does it take?, Michael Rothberg MD
Hysterectomy, James Wang MD and Ronald Burkman MD
Just call it "treatment"., Peter D. Friedmann and Robert P. Schwartz
When tube feeds result in weight loss, Mohammed Albugeaey MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD
Milestones for Apheresis education, Chester Andrzejewski MD
Nursing hemotherapy bedside biovigilance in the recognition and management of suspected transfusion reactions, Chester Andrzejewski MD and Joan McGirr
Hemotherapy bedside biovigilance involving vital sign values and characteristics of patients with suspected transfusion reactions associated with fluid challenges: can some cases of transfusion-associated circulatory overload have proinflammatory aspects?, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Theresa Stec, Jean Provencher, Lynne O'Hearn, Paul Visintainer, and Jay Steingrub MD
Complications of skull base trauma: A pictorial review with correlation to clinicopathologic finding, Jane An MD, Shan Li MD, and Cheri Nguyen MD
Calcific temdonitis of longus colli - A potential for diagnostic and therapeutic pitfalls, Sonali Arora MD
Double trouble: Heart & lung in distress, Sonali Arora MD, Auras Atreya MD, and Amir Lotfi MD
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis, Andrew Artenstein MD
Double trouble: Heart & lung in distress!, Auras Atreya MD
Predictors of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients undergoing elective cardiac catherization for chronic ischemic heart disease, Auras Atreya MD
Predictors of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients undergoing elective cardiac catherization in chronic ischemic heart disease, Auras Atreya MD
Predictors of PCI in patients undergoing elective cardiac catherization for chronic ischemic heart disease, Auras Atreya MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Paul Visintainer, and Michael Rothberg MD
Pulmonary cryptococcosis: An unlikely pathogen, Behdad Besharatian MD, Eimear Kitt MD, Armando Paez MD, Zenaib Sawan MD, and Raquel Belforti MD
Controversy Session: Imaging of the Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy: Current Roles and Controversies, Tara Catanzano MD
AIRP best cases in radiologic-pathologic correlation: Localized amyloidosis of the renal pelvis, Tara Catanzano MD, Srinivas Paidy MD, and David Unold MD
Cerebellar metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma in a pediatric patient with complex congenital heart disease., Rushika Conroy MD
T-wave inversion and diastolic dysfunction in patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, James Cook MD, Peter Ofman MD, Leehapong Navaravong MD, Leng Jiang MD, and Mathias Stoenescu MD
30-day outcomes and predictors of mortality in dialysis patients undergoing abdominal surgery, Arley Diaz MD and Mihaela Stefan MD
Post-operative outcomes in dialysis patients undergoing elective or emergent non-cardiac surgery, Arley Diaz MD and Mihaela Stefan MD
Open component separation for abdominal wall reconstruction, David Earle MD
Impact on clinical laboratories of the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act, Richard Friedberg MD
Isolated right-sided heart failure secondary to thyrotoxicosis, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD
Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign conditions, Oz Harmanli MD
Method of biopsy and sample quality for genetic mutation testing in advanced non-small cell lung cancer in a community hospital, Subramony Iyer MD
Chronic opiate therapy and non-specific abdominal pain, Randa Jaber MD
Scurvy from "too much Coca-cola" in a malnouridhed and bipolar woman, Payal Jhawar MD
Asymptomatic enterococcus faecalis native aortic valve endocarditis presenting with cold right leg, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD
Induced Brugada-type electrocardiogram in a near fatal Flecainide overdose, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD