Health Awareness Months 2025 - Clinical Advisor
Dec 1, 2024 · 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 …
Lithium side effects and management strategies - Clinical Advisor
Jan 18, 2017 · Lithium can cause side effect and toxicity burden and should be monitored. The declining rates for lithium use are linked to the burden of side effects and toxicity associated …
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 …
Diagnosis and Management of Nasal Bone Fractures
Feb 26, 2024 · Nasal bone fractures account for approximately 40% of all facial fractures. 1 In children, the most common cause of nasal bone fractures (NBFs) is sports (59.3%), followed …
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?
Vulvar lichen sclerosus: breaking the silence - Clinical Advisor
Feb 2, 2017 · Last Reviewed: January 16, 2024. Lichen sclerosus is a chronic inflammatory skin condition that causes itchy painful white patches and most commonly affects the vulva, groin, …
Should the “Doctor” Title Be Reserved for Physicians?
Sep 8, 2023 · Credit: Getty Images. The perspectives of professional societies and experts differ significantly on whether clinicians other than physicians should be permitted to use the …
Guidance for Antibiotic Use in Patients With Myasthenia Gravis
All prescribers should be aware of the range of possible adverse effects associated with antibiotics. Though perhaps less well recognized than other adverse effects, various …
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.
A treatment approach for poison ivy - Clinical Advisor
May 1, 2015 · If a patient has had a poison ivy rash for one week, how long would steroids be prescribed at this point? — ZENA VATMAN, FNP, Stamford, Conn.