CURRENT ISSUE
Volume: 38
Number: 3
Index: June 2010
Clinical Focus:
ONCOLOGY & GERIATRIC CARE;
THROMBOSIS
EDITORIAL CALENDAR
November 2010
Clinical Focus: Cardiovascular Events and Emergency Surgery
  • Pre-and postoperative care of GERD
  • Renal care
  • Sleep disorders
  • Heart disease
  • Caring for the poststroke patient
  • Cardiovascular events and emergency surgery
  • Osteoporosis
  • Osteomyelitis
  • Caring for postoperative patients
  • Cv imaging in heart surgery
  • Valve surgery
  • Perioperative risk
  • Sudden cardiac death in the young
  • Cardiac/cardiopulmonary arrest
  • Post-cardiac arrest syndrome
  • CV consequences of aging
  • Hydrogen sulfide in CVD
  • Arterial stiffness
  • Regionalized care for:
    • Acute cardiovascular events
    • Trauma care
    • Post-cardiac arrest syndrome
  • Pacemaker therapy of postoperative arrhythmias after pediatric cardiac surgery
  • Effect of hospital volume and teaching status on outcomes of acute liver failure
  • Caring for women undergoing cardiac ablation
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Clinical Focus

Incretin-Based Therapies:
Review of the Outpatient Literature with Implications for Use in the Hospital and After Discharge
Bruce Bode, MD, FACE and Alpesh Amin, MD,FACP,FHM

The Massachusetts General Hospital Vascular Center:
Emergence of a Multidisciplinary Program Designed to Improve Quality Outcomes for Patients
Michael R. Jaff, DO, FACP, FACC; Ann Prestipino, MPH; Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, FACC, FSCAI; and Lauren Ellis, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Acute Ischemic Stroke and Thrombolysis Location:
Comparing Telemedicine and Stroke Center Treatment Outcomes
Catalina C. Ionita, MD; Jitendra Sharma, MD; David M. Janicke, MD, PhD; Elad I. Levy, MD; Adnan H. Siddiqui, MD, PhD; Sachin Agrawal, MD; John G. Baker, PhD, ABPP-CN; Eliz Agopian, MD, MPH; Karen Olson, BSN, RN; and L. Nelson Hopkins, MD

Do Faculty Intensivists Have Better Outcomes When Caring for Patients Directly in a Closed ICU versus Consulting in an Open ICU?
Dani Hackner, MD; Chrisandra L. Shufelt, MD, MS; David D. Balfe, MD; Michael I. Lewis, MD; Ashraf Elsayegh, MD; Glenn D. Braunstein, MD; and Zab Mosenifar, MD

Safe Insulin Use in the Hospital Setting
Lowell R. Schmeltz, MD

Case Report:
Anaphylactic Reaction to Guaifenesin
Manujendra Ray, MD, PhD; Bela Faltay, MD; and Nairmeen Awad Haller, PhD

Utility of Echocardiography in Hypotension in the Intensive Care Unit
Sumit Verma, MD; Sumit Kumar, MD; James R. Gossage, MD; and Vipul B. Shah, MD

Clinical Articles

Practical Implementation of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest
David F. Gaieski, MD; Barry Fuchs, MD; Brendan G. Carr, MD; Raina Merchant, MD; Daniel M. Kolansky, MD; Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil; Lance B. Becker, MD; Cheryl Maguire, RN, MSN; Michael Whitehawk, RN, EMT-P; Joshua Levine, MD; and Munish Goyal, MD

Clinical Cases in Acute Intoxication
Sean B. Smith, MD; Jennifer Maguire, MD; and Karen F. Mauck, MD, MSc, FACP

Application of a Prediction Rule to Discriminate Between Aseptic and Bacterial Meningitis in Adults
Benjamin R. Doolittle, MD and Amy Alias, MD

Hospital-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury
Kevin W. Finkel, MD, FACP, FASN and Amber S. Podoll, MD

Microcirculatory Alterations in the Critically Ill
Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD and Daniel De Backer, MD, PhD

Toward a Risk-Based Assessment of the Adult Cancer Survivor:
Late Effects of Chemotherapy
Samuel Ofori, MD; Mary Ann Heddon, RN, MSN; and Martha Griffis, RN, BSN

Common Procedures in Internal Medicine:
Improving Knowledge and Minimizing Complications
Kevin T. Harley, MD; Michael D. Wang, MD, FACP; and Alpesh Amin, MD, FACP, FHM

Patients Presenting with Severe Hypotonic Hyponatremia:
Etiological Factors, Assessment, and Outcomes
Thuy Vu, MBBS; Rosemary Wong, MBBS, FRACP, PhD; P. Shane Hamblin, MBBS, FRACP, PhD; Jeffrey Zajac, MBBS, FRACP, PhD; and Mathis Grossmann, MD, FRACP, PhD

Cell Therapy, Advanced Materials, and New Approaches to Acute Kidney Injury
Alexander S. Yevzlin, MD and H. David Humes, MD

Successful Treatment of Chylous Ascites Secondary to Sarcoidosis with Methotrexate
Praveen Mannam, MD, MS; Joseph M. Boselli, MD; and Edward S. Schulman, MD

Systemic Hypothermia Induced within 10 Hours After Birth Improved Neurological Outcome in Newborns with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Tongchuan Li, MD; Falin Xu, MD, PhD; Xiuyong Cheng, MD; Xiaoyan Guo, MD; Ling Ji, MD; Zhan Zhang, MD, PhD; Xiaoyang Wang, MD, PhD; Klas Blomgren, MD, PhD; George Simbruner, MD; and Zhu Changlian, MD, PhD