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Tranexamic acid reduced all-cause mortality in a broad population of trauma patients without an increase in vascular occlusion complications.
We’ve been very busy over the past few months to release a brand new, fully upgraded version of ClinCalc.com. Today, these updates are now available!
Read below for the major updates that we’ve released, but rest assured, there are many, many more under-the-hood updates for nearly all of the 25+ clinical calculators on ClinCalc.
There’s nothing that smells sweeter than a freshly based mobile app for medical education. Our newest app, FlashRX by ClinCalc, is no exception!
As a professor, I commonly see frustrated students with complicated drug cards that provide excessive, non-prioritized information. Instead of these complicated drug cards, FlashRX’s drug database focuses on simple, usable information to develop a core knowledge base. This emphasis on practical knowledge will improve learning and comprehension of the top 200 drugs.
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Recommend taking at least one antihypertensive medication at night. This simple, cost-effective intervention was recently shown in the MAPEC trial to modestly reduce cardiovascular events and mortality.
As it turns out, patients with ARDS should be belly sleepers. The PROSEVA trial, freshly published in NEJM, examined the role of prone positioning in patients with early, severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Voluven (hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4) was heralded to the hospital community as a cheaper alternative to albumin, but safer than previous hydroxyethyl starch (HES) products that were shown to cause bleeding and renal failure.
Although Voluven is likely “safer” than older HES products, it still is NOT safer than traditional volume repletion with normal saline or albumin. It was a good run, Voluven, but it’s time to pull the plug.
Magnesium repletion is very common in hospitalized patients. Is there any difference between PO and IV magnesium in patients without symptoms of hypomagnesemia?
Amlodipine (Norvasc) is a great drug — but it takes 8 hours for the drug to reach its peak drug concentration, and about a week to reach steady-state full antihypertensive effect.
We’ve got some exciting news regarding updates over the past month on ClinCalc. We’ve posted two new clinical calculators, released a new iPhone/Android mobile app, and even did some guest posting!
I receive quite a bit of feedback regarding one of my more popular mobile applications, ICU Trials by ClinCalc. Often, these emails involve a request to add a particular “landmark” trial with the next application update. With 10-20 recent requests for new trial additions, I’ve been forced to re-evaluate my criteria for what constitutes a seminal paper in the area of critical care medicine.
Although there isn’t an official scoring system or absolute list of must-have criteria, I’ve developed a simple list of ten important factors that help differentiate important trials from paramount, landmark gems in evidence-based medicine.