Volume 49 - Issue 12 - December 2009

Consultant

Perioperative Medicine
Perioperative Medicine
What’s New in Perioperative Medicine?
04/24/2011

GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor | December 8, 2009

 
Dr Rutecki is professor of medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile. He is also a member of the editorial board of CONSULTANT. Dr Rutecki reports that he has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor ...
<div id="article-content-body"> <p>Primary care physicians are called upon to assess risk in patients undergoing a variety of surgical procedures. In some ways, perioperative medicine...
04/24/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
Dressing Smart
04/24/2011
To avoid causing any exacerbation of a skin tear or similar wound when changing a self-adherent soft silicone foam dressing, I draw an arrow on the dressing over the spot where the...
04/24/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
More Effective Way to Ask a Delicate Question
04/24/2011
<p><span class="article-text"><span>When taking a patient’s sexual history, I find that the question “How many partners do you have?” rarely elicits a complete picture. Instead,...
04/24/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
Help Patients Brush Up on Their Meds
04/24/2011
To improve adherence in patients whose drug regimen calls for twice-daily dosing, I encourage them to keep the medication near their toothbrush.
04/24/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
Shoes Off Is a Shoo-In
04/24/2011
<p>To help ensure that the annual foot examinations required in patients with diabetes are performed, we have a sign at the front of each examination room that says, “If you have diabetes, please take...
04/24/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
Making a List, Checking It Twice
04/24/2011
To enhance the efficiency of a subsequent office visit with a patient, make a list of action points for that next encounter at the end of your notes.
04/24/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
Easier Eye Irrigation in Children
04/24/2011
<p><span class="article-text"><span>Irrigating a child’s eye to wash out a toxic substance can be difficult. An effective way for a parent to do this is to put the child in the...
04/24/2011
Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis
Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis
Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis
04/24/2011

UMER FEROZE MALIK, MD, SHEELA KAPRE, MD, and AHMED MAHMOUD, MD
San Joaquin General Hospital, French Camp, California

UMER FEROZE MALIK, MD, SHEELA KAPRE, ...
The multiple, symmetrically distributed, soft, nontender swellings on the shoulders and torso of a 56-year-old Hispanic man are characteristic of multiple symmetric lipomatosis (MSL), also known as Madelung...
04/24/2011
Ophthalmic Zoster
Ophthalmic Zoster
Ophthalmic Zoster
04/24/2011

KHIEM T. TRAN, MD, MHA, ANDREW S. QUALM, OD, and MARCIA A. SHANNON, FNP
Kyle Health Center, Kyle, SD

KHIEM T. TRAN, MD, MHA, ANDREW S. QUA...
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04/24/2011
Pap Smears
Pap Smears
For Easier Pap Smears: Condom vs Glove
04/24/2011
<div id="article-content-body"><p><em>I read with interest Dr Adam Breinig’s Practical Pointer, “For Easier Pap Smears, Use a Condom” (CONSULTANT, August 2009, page 488). I agree...
04/24/2011
BMI in children
BMI in children
BMI in children
04/24/2011
<div id="article-content-body"> <p><em>Body mass index (BMI) facilitates meaningful comparison of the weights of children of varying heights. It is useful in population studies,...
04/24/2011
Heal a Skin Crack
Heal a Skin Crack
More Than One Way to Heal a Skin Crack
04/24/2011
<div id="article-content-body"> <p>In his Practical Pointer, “Take a Crack at Healing Fingertip Fissures” (CONSULTANT, March 2009, page 185), Ron Passeri, MD, recommended having...
04/24/2011