Volume 49 - Issue 4 - April 2009

Consultant

Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular Tachycardia
04/26/2011

UMER FEROZE MALIK, MD, MERSADIES R. MARTIN, MS,
JAMES SAFFIER, MD, and SHEELA KAPRE, MD
San Joaquin General Hospital, French Camp, Calif

YINGBO YANG, MD, PhD
University of California Davis Health System

UMER FEROZE MALIK, MD, MERSADIES R. M...
<p><span class="article-text"><span>A 63-year-old man complained of sudden dizziness and dyspnea while sitting at his desk at work. His coworker called an ambulance. On...
04/26/2011
House Staff
House Staff
04/26/2011

HENRY SCHNEIDERMAN, MD
Hebrew Health Care, University of Connecticut, and Yale University

HENRY SCHNEIDERMAN, MD Hebrew Health ...
<p><img src="http://www.consultantlive.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1406114&t=1240000663088" alt="" vspace="7" width="147" align="left"...
04/26/2011
Retinal Vein Occlusions
Retinal Vein Occlusions
04/26/2011

LEONID SKORIN Jr, DO
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine

LEONID SKORIN Jr, DO Chicago College ...
<p><strong><img src="http://www.consultantlive.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1401906&t=1239728694810" style="float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;"...
04/26/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
04/26/2011
<p>When removing sutures that are tight or for any reason difficult to get scissors under, I use a No. 11–blade scalpel, with the blunt side down and the sharp side up beneath the suture to be...
04/26/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
04/26/2011
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Although children can usually inhale very well during lung auscultation, typically they do not exhale sufficiently. I ask them to “breathe in real big...
04/26/2011
tips and tricks
tips and tricks
04/26/2011
<p>When a patient with iron deficiency anemia fails to respond to oral iron supplementation, consider whether foods he or she is consuming may be contributing to malabsorption. Such foods include...
04/26/2011
04/26/2011

JONATHAN HORWITZ, DO, JAMAL QURESHI, MD, SAEID GOSHTASBI, MD, NIKHIL BHARGAVA, DO, and ABOUD AFFI, MD
Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee

JONATHAN HORWITZ, DO, JAMAL QURESHI, ...
<p><img src="http://www.consultantlive.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1401383&t=1239642110651" style="float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;"...
04/26/2011
Aortic Atheroma
Aortic Atheroma
04/26/2011

JESSE J. KLEIN, DO and FAISAL M. KHAN, MD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

FAISAL M. SYED, MD
Austin Heart, San Marcos, Tex

JESSE J. KLEIN, DO and FAISAL M. KHAN...
<div><img src="http://www.consultantlive.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1401290&t=1239636563123" style="float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;"...
04/26/2011
Transfusion
Transfusion
04/26/2011

GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor

 

GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor ...
<p>Here is a common clinical scenario. Your patient was admitted to the hospital with an acute myocardial infarction (MI). Intervention has been successful, and the patient's condition is now...
04/26/2011
Strabismus
Strabismus
04/26/2011
<p><img src="http://www.consultantlive.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1399807&t=1239285305827" style="float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;"...
04/26/2011
Insulin pump
Insulin pump
04/26/2011
<p><span class="article-text"><span>Starting insulin pump therapy is essentially the same in all patients. Once you have selected a pump, contact the manufacturer. All pump...
04/26/2011
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
04/25/2011

HANI RAOUL KHOUZAM, MD, MPH
VA Central California Health Care Center, Fresno
University of California, San Francisco
Dr Khouzam is medical director, chemical dependency treatment program, Veterans Affairs Central California Health Care System, Fresno. He is also clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Medical School Fresno Medical Education Program. The author reports no conflicts of interest concerning the subject matter of this article.

HANI RAOUL KHOUZAM, MD, MPH VA Centra...
In the second part of this 2-part series, the author describes the various treatments, with emphasis on those that are typically used in the primary care setting. In part 1, the author addressed the...
04/25/2011