General Internal Medicine

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Questions discussed in this category


Are there situations in which you still feel comfortable giving IV iron? If not, do you consider PO iron?

For example, what do you do when someone requests aggressive, life-prolonging treatments but then is not receptive to elements of day-to-day care in t...

In particular, how do you reconcile situations where lung POCUS findings contradict other components of volume assessment (e.g. JVD, peripheral edema,...

For example, prolonging life-sustaining measures as they "wait for a miracle" of an unrealistic outcome. 

What additional assessments and considerations would you suggest to comprehensively evaluate the underlying cause of the rhythm disturbance and ensure...

Common thought is that FVIII may be used for differentiating coagulopathy in liver disease (normal to increased, from reduced clearance of VWF/FVIII) ...


Papers discussed in this category


Hepatology, 1996 Jun

Hepatology, 1986 Jul-Aug

Gut, 1992 Jan

Circulation, 2015 Sep 15

The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2017 Feb 04

European heart journal, 2023 Oct 14

Annals of emergency medicine, 2006-01

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019-01

Neurology. Clinical practice, 2020 Aug

Cureus, 2020 Nov 18

Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2024 Jun

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2010-02

The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Aug 17

Thorax, 2009 Oct

Journal of cardiac failure, 2021 Oct

JAMA, 1989 Feb 10

Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2020 Dec 02