Health Awareness Months 2025 - Clinical Advisor
Feb 9, 2023 · Health awareness campaigns occur all throughout the year in a wide variety of medical fields. These are when health awareness days, weeks, and months are happening this year.
Understanding the Mallampati score - Clinical Advisor
In anesthesia, the Mallampati score (or Mallampati classification) is used to predict the ease of intubation. It can also be used to predict whether a patient might have obstructive sleep apnea.
Nonadherent vs Noncompliant: Patients Who Don't Follow …
Feb 25, 2021 · Describing patients as “nonadherent” rather than “noncompliant” to a treatment regimen reflects a healthy patient-provider relationship.
Should the “Doctor” Title Be Reserved for Physicians?
Credit: Getty Images. The perspectives of professional societies and experts differ significantly on whether clinicians other than physicians should be permitted to use the honorific “doctor.”
Communicating Concerns About Nonspecific Changes on ECG
Jan 10, 2013 · Communicating concerns about nonspecific changes on ECG Exercise caution when a patient presents with acute chest pain. The ability to explain the situation as clearly as possible is essential.
Creatinine levels in the elderly - Clinical Advisor
Aug 4, 2008 · Some elderly patients show gradual increases in creatinine even when hypertension, blood glucose levels, etc., are well controlled. When should these patients be...
CREATINE KINASE LEVELS WHILE ON STATINS - Clinical Advisor
Apr 25, 2008 · What rise in creatine kinase (CK) is considered significant in patients on statin therapy? Does the presence or absence of myalgia symptoms affect significance?
Alternative treatments for patients with lidocaine allergies
Sep 8, 2016 · Clinicians can use alternative anesthesia for patients with lidocaine allergies. Alternative anesthetics can be used for patients who have a lidocaine allergy.
CALCIUM ON THE SPINAL CORD - Clinical Advisor
May 29, 2008 · What would cause deposits of calcium on the cervical spinal cord? What tests would you run, and what treatment would you suggest? The patient, who has had two surgical procedures to remove the ...
Guidance for Antibiotic Use in Patients With Myasthenia Gravis
Baseline respiratory muscle weakness from MG can predispose patients to infection in the lower respiratory tract. 3 Conversely, infection is a common cause of exacerbation of MG that may lead to ...