Recently added articles from Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings:
Pustules and dystrophy of the nails.(Dermatology Report)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] A 57-year-old Caucasian woman came to the outpatient clinic with a complaint of a 3-month history of redness, pain, and itching of her left fifth digit involving the periungual skin, dorsal fingertip, and skin over her distal interphalangeal joint. Prior ...
Nutrition in Kidney Disease.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Nutrition in Kidney Disease, edited by Laura D. Byham-Gray, Jerrilyn D. Burrowes, and Glen M. Chertow Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008. Hardcover, 621 pp., $149.00. Nutrition in Kidney Disease was written as a part of the Nutrition and Health series ....
Use of instructional video to prepare parents for learning infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Infants requiring care in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) often have conditions that put them at increased risk of cardiorespiratory arrest after discharge. Many hospitals require that the parents of these infants learn how to perform infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) ...
Minimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation from computed tomography scans.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Computed tomography (CT) is a powerful tool. It allows very quick creation of x-ray images of the body with high-resolution cross-sectional imaging. The quick, detailed result has made CT very valuable, especially in the emergency department (ED). In a very short time period, high-quality, ...
Invited commentary.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Dr. Whitfield and his colleagues are to be commended on a very thorough historical review and their own research investigating the prevention of meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS). Through their research findings they have changed the practice patterns at Baylor University Medical Center, ...
Facts and ideas from anywhere.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2009; ... EVALUATING LIPID-LOWERING TRIALS IN THE 21ST CENTURY It's these large multicenter, double-blind, often placebo-controlled clinical trials that have the greatest impact on how medicine now is practiced. With lipid-lowering drugs, the trials are of two basic types: 1) the outcome ...
Financial performance of primary care physician practices prior to electronic health record implementation.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Widespread implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) has been identified as an important step in improving the quality of health care in the United States (1). One of the frequently cited barriers to adoption of EHRs, particularly among small ambulatory care practices, is the high ...
Financial performance of primary care physician practices prior to electronic health record implementation: online-only appendix.(Statistical table)
Apr 01, 2009; ... For full article, see http://www.baylorhealth.edu/proceedings/22_2/ 22_2_fleming.pdf. <Pre> Appendix Table A. Covariance parameter estimates for resource use and financial performance measures from July 2002 to April 2006 in 33 HealthTexas Provider Network primary care ...
Wide-QRS tachycardia immediately after aortic valve replacement.(Electrocardiographic Report)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] A 49-year-old man with morbid obesity (6'5", 360 lbs), diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, and a history of systemic arterial hypertension had an aortic valve replacement for severe stenosis (aortic valve area, 0.9 [cm.sup.2]) with exertional dyspnea and ...
Endovascular treatment of an aberrant right subclavian artery aneurysm with use of the Zenith iliac plug.(Case study)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) aneurysms are extremely rare. When present, they can be clinically silent or cause symptoms such as dysphagia, shortness of breath, or chest pain. ARSA aneurysms are prone to rupture, with death rates in acute rupture reported as high as 50% (1) ....
Acupuncture as a complementary therapy in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
Apr 01, 2009; ... A cupuncture is a therapeutic technique that involves inserting and manipulating thin needles into points on the body called acupuncture points. Acupuncture has been a very important part of traditional Chinese medicine. According to Chinese philosophy, qi (vital energy) is circulating ...
Linking Joint Commission inpatient core measures and National Patient safety Goals with evidence.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Joint Commission's core measures serve as a national, standardized performance measurement system providing assessments of care delivered in given focus areas (1-3). The current set of hospital-based Joint Commission core measures represents the results of a stepwise development ...
Mass in the neck after radiation exposure from Chernobyl disaster.(Conference news)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Baylor Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas Site Tumor Conference Presented at the head and neck site tumor conference on October 28, 2008 A 55-year-old white man in good health underwent a thorough triennial physical examination, and a mass in the left neck was found on a ...
A patient reflects on chronic illness--and support from family and physicians.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Thanks for my award for surviving chronic illness! Imagine bloody, seeping wounds on your legs. Imagine how they look--so deep you can see the bone, so painful to look at and extremely painful to have. You have to take the strongest pain medicine just to live through the day or ...
A suggestion for the stimulus.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2009; ... After directing nearly a trillion dollars towards our ailing banks, insurance companies, and auto industry, the Obama administration has now pushed through a bill to spend just short of a trillion dollars to jump-start the rest of the economy. I am all for this. This recession has been ...
Abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting in a 10-year-old girl.(Radiology Report)(Case study)
Apr 01, 2009; ... A 10-year-old white girl was brought to the emergency department by her parents for extreme abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and decrease in appetite. The patient's mother said she began complaining of the pain the previous morning and the pain was progressive throughout the day and ...
2008 new drug approvals.(Pharmacology Notes)(Drug overview)
Apr 01, 2009; ... This article provides a brief review of selected new drug entities approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2008. ALVIMOPAN (ENTEREG) Therapeutic use: Alvimopan (1-3) is a peripherally acting, selective mu-opioid receptor antagonist with no detectable ...
Predictive factors for early postoperative hypocalcemia after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Surgery remains the most effective treatment for hyperparathyroidism. The incidence of hyperparathyroidism is increasing secondary to increased detection, technological advances, awareness by providers, and routine serum calcium screening (1). While early guidelines suggested surgery in ...
Who is an expert? A quick primer on an evasive concept.(Medicolegal Issues)
Apr 01, 2009; ... To many physicians, the term expert witness not only raises the specter of a "hired gun" willing to testify against his colleagues for financial gain, but often leads to exasperation when learning that the expert is not even in the same field of medicine as the person he is testifying ...
Remembrances of N. Y. Zachariah, PhD.(Tributes)(In memoriam)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Zaven H. Chakmakjian, MD I first met Dr. Zachariah in 1975 when we recruited him to come to Dallas from the Cleveland Clinic to help run the endocrine laboratory at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC). Dr. Ralph Tompsett, chief of internal medicine, and Boone Powell Sr., CEO ...