I’ve played around with several reference managers over the course of my medical career. Mendeley was somewhat limited in its free option. Papers was nice, but then ultimately got purchased by ReadCube with a subscription model (boo!). EndNote 20, the “gold standard”, seems to still leave me unimpressed with its…
This observational Lancet study compared ~96,000 patients across 671 international hospitals with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis who received hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) +/- a macrolide (ie, azithro) or chloroquine +/- a macrolide (four total treatment arms) to a control arm that received none of the aforementioned therapies. The primary outcome was In-hospital…
Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) come in a wide variety of flavors ranging from atelectasis and pulmonary congestion to respiratory failure and pneumonia. Not only do certain surgeries (upper abdominal and thoracic), age, case duration, and patient comorbidities (renal failure, longstanding respiratory disease, etc.) confer a higher incidence of PPCs, but…
As a cardiac anesthesiologist, I’ve been involved in my fair share of open and endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repairs. Although sometimes these are more emergent, contained ruptures, the majority of AAA repairs are electively performed for a progressive enlargement of an aneurysm. The magic number to intervene is usually…