Medical Jeopardy: Anticoagulation for Venous Thromboembolism
Test and review your knowledge about VTE and management with anticoagulation.
Test and review your knowledge about VTE and management with anticoagulation.
What’s your differential diagnosis to explain the “strange behavior” of a patient with newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS?
Do you ever give NSAID’s to patients with cardiomyopathy? Usually not, and here is evidence supporting why we don’t. But are there some NSAID’s that have less unfavorable outcomes?
Lactulose is widely used for treatment of hepatic encephalopathy because it is effective, cheap, and widely available. So is there any benefit to using Rifaximin in patients with hepatic encephalopathy? Here are some questions to answer when reviewing this article…
Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) rather than warfarin is routinely recommended for patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and active cancer. Much of that is based on this article. Think about these as you review the article: Clinical Question: In patients with cancer…