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Mashup Score: 0Using the New HeatRisk Dashboard to Save Lives - 10 day(s) ago
American Family Physician Community Blog, Using the New HeatRisk Dashboard to Save Lives, written by Jennifer Middleton, MD, MPH.
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Mashup Score: 2AFP Podcast - 11 day(s) ago
AFP Podcast
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Mashup Score: 3Saw Palmetto for the Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia - 12 day(s) ago
Does saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) reduce symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)?
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Mashup Score: 3Revista Médica AFP Podcast - 13 day(s) ago
Revista Médica AFP Podcast es una versión en español del popular y práctico Podcast de AFP.
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Mashup Score: 1
Treatment-resistant depression is defined as absence of remission despite trials of two or more antidepressant medications and can occur in up to 31% of patients with major depressive disorder. Partial response to treatment is defined as less than 50% reduction in depression-rating scores. Before diagnosing treatment-resistant depression or partial response to treatment, adherence to adequate doses and duration of medications should be confirmed. Management strategies include adding psychotherapy, switching antidepressant medication class, or augmenting with additional medications. Current guidelines recommend augmentation with a second-generation antidepressant, an atypical antipsychotic, tricyclic antidepressants, lithium, or a triiodothyronine medication as pharmacologic options. Ketamine and esketamine can also be used as augmentation for treatment-resistant depression and may help reduce suicidal ideation. Electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Mashup Score: 10
Hyponatremia and hypernatremia are electrolyte disorders that can be associated with poor outcomes. Hyponatremia is considered mild when the sodium concentration is 130 to 134 mEq per L, moderate when 125 to 129 mEq per L, and severe when less than 125 mEq per L. Mild symptoms include nausea, vomiting, weakness, headache, and mild neurocognitive deficits. Severe symptoms of hyponatremia include delirium, confusion, impaired consciousness, ataxia, seizures, and, rarely, brain herniation and death. Patients with a sodium concentration of less than 125 mEq per L and severe symptoms require emergency infusions with 3% hypertonic saline. Using calculators to guide fluid replacement helps avoid overly rapid correction of sodium concentration, which can cause osmotic demyelination syndrome. Physicians should identify the cause of a patient’s hyponatremia, if possible; however, treatment should not be delayed while a diagnosis is pursued. Common causes include certain medications, excessive al
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Mashup Score: 2Red, Verrucous Plaque on the Forearm - 14 day(s) ago
A 63-year-old man presented to the family medicine clinic with a nonpainful skin lesion on his left forearm. The lesion had grown rapidly since he first noticed it 2 weeks earlier. The patient reported having some purulent and blood-tinged fluid drainage from the lesion. He also experienced several weeks of low-grade fevers, nonproductive cough, and unintentional weight loss. One week earlier, he had been prescribed antibiotics for presumed pneumonia, but his symptoms had not improved since completing treatment. The patient was a farmer in southern Indiana. His medical history was significant only for squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. He had no history of tobacco use.
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Mashup Score: 3Treating Elevated BP in the Hospital: More Harm Than Good? - 16 day(s) ago
American Family Physician Community Blog, Treating Elevated BP in the Hospital: More Harm Than Good?, written by Kenny Lin, MD, MPH.
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Mashup Score: 9Childhood and Adolescent Sports-Related Overuse Injuries - 17 day(s) ago
Childhood and adolescent sports participation is encouraged because of health and wellness benefits. However, the increasing number of young athletes means there is the potential for more sports-related overuse injuries. Most youth sports injuries occur at the bone’s relatively weaker growth centers: the epiphyses and apophyses. Little league shoulder and elbow are common overuse injuries in baseball and other single-arm dominant sports. Little league shoulder is a Salter-Harris fracture of the proximal humerus, and little league elbow is an apophysitis of the medial epicondyle. In both injuries, the athlete often reports decreased throwing velocity or accuracy. The physician should emphasize the Major League Baseball Pitch Smart guidelines when counseling on rehabilitation and prevention. Gymnast’s wrist is a distal radial epiphysis injury in which the patient reports chronic wrist pain. Gymnast’s wrist should be managed conservatively with immobilization. Spondylolysis is an importan
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Mashup Score: 3Wait-and-Watch Is an Option for Patients With Symptomatic but Uncomplicated Gallstones - 18 day(s) ago
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