Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) involves gathering a patient's medical history, performing a physical examination, and determining the need for diagnostic testing. Physicians integrate this ...

In geriatric medicine, the adage that age is just a number holds true. New research uses a simple assessment tool to determine how well older adults diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) can ...

The assessment of a patient’s body fluid status is a challenging task for modern clinicians. Ultrasonography has numerous advantages, the most important being reproducibility and bedside monitoring of ...

Successfully treating chronic pain is challenging, as patients respond heterogeneously to analgesic treatments. Such variation in response can be attributed to differing underlying pain-generating ...

The concussion test, which shows results after 15 minutes, can help evaluate patients up to 24 hours after injury, company says. The FDA has approved Abbott’s i-STAT TBI cartridge to use with whole ...

(Boston)—The patient–doctor relationship is built upon trust in not only doctors’ knowledge and skills but also attitudes. Over time, notions of trust in medical education have focused increasingly on ...

Your Big Read article “Keeping humans in the loop” (October 10) discusses artificial intelligence in the practice of medicine. I gained my Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) 50 years ...

Christiana Care Health System provides a free, downloadable Universal Protocol and fire risk assessment for bedside procedure. The tool was developed as part of a series of materials for use in fire ...

A case control study in five controls, and 20 tetraplegic and paraplegic patients, complete and incomplete. Unlike the visually evoked SSR, the gasp-evoked SSR was reliable, albeit of variable ...

The patient–doctor relationship is built upon trust in not only doctors' knowledge and skills but also attitudes. Over time, notions of trust in medical education have focused increasingly on trainees ...