Submissions from 2012
Respiratory mechanics during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation: a physical model and preterm infant study, Rachana Singh MD
D-Dimer threshold increase with pretest probability unlikely for pulmonary embolism to decrease unnecessary computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography, Howard Smithline MD
Metabolic syndrome in obese adolescents is associated with risk for nephrolithiasis., Rishita Tiwari MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Gregory Braden MD, Paul Visintainer, Edward Reiter MD, and Holley Allen MD
Embedding the concepts of waste and systems failure reduction in an innovative quality curriculum for resident education, Surinder Yadav MD, Reva Kleppel, Jasmine Paadam MD, Reham Shaaban MD, and Lauren Meade MD
Urine sampling in hospitalised patients is erroneous and unreliable for clinical care, Surinder Yadav MD, Mary Ellen Scales, Mary Brunton, Denise Schoen, and Evan Benjamin MD
Association between hospital intraoperative blood transfusion practices for surgical blood loss and hospital surgical mortality rates., Wen-Chih Wu, Amal Trivedi, Peter D. Friedmann, William G. Henderson, Tracy S. Smith, Roy M. Poses, Georgette Uttley, Michael Vezeridis, Charles B. Eaton, and Vincent Mor
Adding positive reinforcement in justice settings: acceptability and feasibility., Danielle S. Rudes, Faye S. Taxman, Shannon Portillo, Amy Murphy, Anne Rhodes, Maxine Stitzer, Peter F. Luongo, and Peter D. Friedmann
Toxoplasma encephalitis in HIV: Is a CD4+ count greater than 200/ìL reassuring?, Ashish Arora MD, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Auras Atreya MD, and Sonali Arora MD
A longitudinal simulation based medical education curriculum in an internal medicine residency program, Raquel Belforti MD, Ngina Muigai MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD
A rare cause of abdominal pain, Anju Bhagavan MD
Abusive head trauma Part I: Clinical aspects, Stephen Boos MD
The power of engagement: implementation of a career ladder program, Robert Bourgeault and Jason Newmark
Lessons from the trenches: Improving practice in an academic health center, Elizabeth Boyle MD and Gregory Delozier
An oldster teaches youngsters new tricks-the role of W. Edwards Deming in health care improvement, Ronald Burkman MD
LegalEase-Clinical decision making and diagnostic errors, Ronald Burkman MD
A face of malignancy revealed, Monique Carreno MD
Prevalence of formal accusations of murder and euthanasia against physicians, Lewis Cohen MD
Rescue shock timing and outcomes following 12 minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation, Ryan Coute, Timothy Mader MD, and Adam Kellogg MD
Restoring coronary perfusion pressure before defibrillation after chest compression interruptions, Ryan Coute, Timothy Mader MD, and Adam Kellogg MD
Implementation of a palliative care ICU interdisciplinary conference, Diane Dietzen MD
POLST Implementaion in a Community Hospital, Diane Dietzen MD
When Italians cannot eat: An exploration of the cultural context of food at end-of-life, Diane Dietzen MD
Simulation for medical students, Gladys Fernandez MD
Boot cAMP: Educational outcomes after 4 successive years of preparatory simulation-based training at onset of internship, Gladys Fernandez MD, David Page MD, Nicholas Coe MD, Patrick Lee MD, Lisa Patterson MD, Loki Skylizard MD, Marisa Amaral MD, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD
Diagnosis and management of hyponatremia, Benjamin Freda MD
Government and professional affairs update, Richard Friedberg MD
Primary hyperparathyroidism in the underinsured: a study of 493 patients, Jane Garb and Azad Jabiev MD
Left upper quadrant abdominal pain: Imaging considerations and a pictorial differential diagnosis, Peter Ghobrial MD
A prospective multicenter registry of laser therapy for degenerated saphenous vein graft stenosis: the COronary graft Results following Atherectomy with Laser (CORAL) trial, Gregory Giugliano MD
Ethical integrative pediatric care: A new perspective, David Gottsegen MD
Cervical spine injuries and helmet laws: A population-based study, Ronald Gross MD and Andrew Doben MD
Emergency ultrasound of the shock and hypotensive patient, Marc Haber MD
Accelerated aortic valve restenosis in a patient with ESRD, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD and Jorge Velez MD
How quickly do clinicians adopt EMR notes?, Thomas Higgins MD, Neil Kudler MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Patrick Brown MD
Scurvy from too much Coca-Cola in a malnourished and bipolar woman, Payal Jhawar MD
Shades of gray: Social media in medical education, Tara Lagu MD
Hospitalizations, costs, and outcomes of severe sepsis in the United States 2003 to 2007, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Meng-Shoiu Shieh
ACEP reimbursement frequently asked questions, Michael Lemanski MD
Enhancing the link: HIV, jails, and community care, Thomas Lincoln MD
Achieving secondary prevention low-density lipoprotein particle concentration goals using lipoprotein cholesterol-based data, Jaya Mallidi MD
Linezolid in Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus nosocomial pneumonia: A randomized, controlled study, William McGee MD
Why the gray zone may shift within the fog, William McGee MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD
Sorting the milestones: Can residents and attendings agree?, Lauren Meade MD
Pediatric ureteropelvic junction obstruction, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD
Parainfluenza virus infection associated with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A case report, . ., Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Daniel Landry MD, and Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD
Double trouble: Auto-immune hemolytic anemia and tumor lysis syndrome following fludarabine-based therapy for chronic lympocytic leukemia, Wei Ooi MD and Saurabh Dahiya MD
Resident curricula: A needs assessment, Michael Plevyak MD
New OB-GYN residents: An innovative approach to teaching the basics, Michael Plevyak MD and Heather Sankey MD
Resident obstetric ultrasound performance. Can we improve the quality?, Michael Plevyak MD and Heather Sankey MD
C-Kit protein expression in female lower genital traact melanoma, Carlos Prieto-Granada MD, Namrata Setia MD, Jane Garb, Wayne Duke MD, and Jean Henneberry MD
Association between statins given in hospital and mortality in pneumonia patients, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD
Bleeding risk and safety profile related to the use of eptifibatide: a current review, Marc Schweiger MD, Fadi Saab MD, and Costin Ionescu MD
The future of surgical simulation, Neal Seymour MD
Use of magnetic resonance imaging to measure endothelial function, Howard Smithline MD
Using acoustic analysis of coughs to identify respiratory infections in the emergency department, Howard Smithline MD, Ryan Coute, and Richard Barus
Benefits of a primary care clinic co-located and integrated in a mental health setting for veterans with serious mental illness., Paul A. Pirraglia, Emily Rowland, Wen-Chih Wu, Peter D. Friedmann, Thomas P. O'Toole, Lisa B. Cohen, and Tracey H. Taveira
Renal sarcoidosis presenting as acute kidney injury with granulomatous interstitial nephritis and vasculitis, Varun Agrawal MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Benjamin Freda MD
Effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on myocardial and renal injury: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Guarav Alreja MD and Amir Lotfi MD
Pregnancy-induced acute neurologic emergencies and neurologic conditions encountered in pregnancy, Jeffrey Alvis MD and Richard Hicks MD
Evidence-Based Guideline Update: Intraoperative Spinal Monitoring with Somatosensory and Transcranial Electrical Motor Evoked Potentials*, Carmel Armon MD
Neonatal Informatics: Optimizing Clinical Data Entry and Display, Patrick Brown MD
PROLOG: Patient Management in the Office, Ronald Burkman MD
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, Ronald Burkman MD
An uncommon twist on Twiddler's syndrome, Jiang Cui MD, Ronana Ali MD, Leehapong Navaravong MD, and Mathias Stoenescu MD
Spontaneous bilateral adrenal hemorrhage, Saurabh Dahiya MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, Monique Carreno MD, and Wei Ooi MD
Acute kidney injury-Withdrawal and witholding of dialysis, Benjamin Freda MD
Withdrawal and witholding support for AKI: Ethical issues in the ICU, Benjamin Freda MD
Nontraumatic abdominal pain in pregnancy: imaging considerations for a multiorgan system problem, Peter Ghobrial MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD
Pulmonary embolism evaluation in the pregnant patient: a review of current imaging approaches, Peter Ghobrial MD, Jonathan Cogley MD, Bharanidhar Chandrasekaran MD, and Steve Allen MD
Jaundice and shock after a Father's Day celebration, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD
Obstructive sleep apnea and prolonged mechanical ventilation, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD
Pediatric resuscitation: Big heads, small tubes, Adam Kellogg MD
Absorbable fistula plug as an effective treatment for gastric fistula after sleeve gastrectomy, Shiv Khosla MD
Non-neoplastic disorders of white blood cells, Rebecca Levy MD, Vandita Johari MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD
A review of the airway literature over the past year, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton MD
Resuscitation via femoral vein is inadequate in abdominal compartment syndrome, William McGee MD, Ashish Arora MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, and Meera Sareen MD
Applied physiology and the hemodynamic management of septic shock utilizing the Physiologic Optimization Program, William McGee MD and Patrick Mailloux MD
Functional hemodynamics in intraabdominal hypertension, William McGee MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, and Meera Sareen MD
Acute right heart failure precipitated by thyroid storm: An unusual manifestation, William McGee MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, Meera Sareen MD, and Sonali Arora MD
A radiologic review of common breast disorders in pregnancy and the perinatal period, Vivian Miller MD, James Canoy MD, Grace Mitchell MD, and David Unold MD
Varying presentations in patients with symptomatic type IV vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marvin Morris MD
Fetal risk in diagnostic radiology, Cheri Nguyen MD and Lawrence Goodman MD
Imaging of the placenta with pathologic correlation, Cheri Nguyen MD, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, and Dustin Nguyen MD
Small Bowel Volvulus, Dustin Nguyen MD, Cheri Nguyen MD, and Richard Hicks MD
Magnetic resonance imaging of the fetal central nervous system, head, neck, and chest, Stephen O'Connor
Imaging of trauma in a pregnant patient, Ajay Puri MD, Paryssa Khadem MD, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, Parul Yadav MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD
Four years' experience with a hospitalist-led medical emergency team: An interrupted time series, Michael Rothberg MD, Raquel Belforti MD, Jan Fitzgerald, Jennifer Friderici, and Marjorie Keyes
The relationship between time spent communicating and communication outcomes on a hospital medicine service, Michael Rothberg MD, John Wheeler MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD
Acute effects of firefighting on cardiac performance, Thomas Rowland MD
Gastrointestinal prophylaxis in neurocritical care, Clemens Schirmer MD
Caudals, dimples, and ultrasound - part 2, Donald Schwartz MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, and Nandakumar Ponnusamy MD
The novel lupus antigen related protein acheron enhances the development of human breast cancer, Rong Shao, Stephan Scully, Wei Yan, Brooke Bentley, James Mueller MD, Lauren Schwartz MD, and Larry Schwartz
Guidelines in practice: Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy, Anant Shenoy MD
Thyroid hormone receptor-α gene knockout mice are protected from diet-induced hepatic insulin resistance, J Enrique Silva MD
Pharmacokinetics of high-dose oral thiamine hydrochloride in healthy subjects, Howard Smithline MD
Initial trophic vs full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury: The EDEN randomized trial, Jay Steingrub MD