Posted by: admin on: July 28, 2011
Alex Smith, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Division of Geriatrics at the University of California I was consulted recently about an elderly woman who refused surgery for a large bowel obstruction from a colonic mass, likely cancer. The inpatient team asked me to help with the transition to hospice and to help […]
Posted by: admin on: July 28, 2011
Dental patients should not take prophylactic antibiotics simply because they have pacemakers or implanted defibrillators, according to a new statement from the American Heart Association (AHA). Although 2007 guidelines already exclude these patients from the list of those who need prophylactic antibiotics to prevent endocarditis, the AHA wanted to emphasize this point because many physicians […]