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Archive for April, 2011

Practice-Changing Articles IV

Greg Bratton, MD • April 13th, 2011

Categories: Clinical Implications of Research, Journal Club

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Recent advances and discussions in medicine are the cornerstone of Journal Watch. Here’s the fourth installment of the articles that made the biggest impression on me in the past 2 weeks. I hope you enjoy the articles I selected. Please feel free to leave a comment on the articles — Do you like them? Dislike them? Agree, disagree, state [...]

The Colors of Life

Greg Bratton, MD • April 7th, 2011

Categories: Cases and Rounds

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For a week, the patient in bed 301 had been fighting. After being found unresponsive and hypothermic in the field, this 48-year-old male was brought to the ICU and was treated for metabolic acidosis, end-stage liver disease, hepatic encephalopathy, and an acute upper GI bleed, all in the context of presumed alcohol intoxication/withdrawal. It was [...]