Abstract:
:A study was undertaken to determine whether the platelet estimate included in the routine CBC is being utilized as a guide to ordering quantitative platelet counts. Requisition slips and results were reviewed for a one-month period. The data showed that platelet estimates were not being used properly. In fact, much of the time the platelet count was being ordered with the CBC. The smear estimate and quantitative count agreed in 96% of specimens. The platelet count is a costly procedure and should be reserved for those occasions when the platelet estimate is abnormal.
journal_name
Postgrad Medjournal_title
Postgraduate medicineauthors
Weinstein JS,Foster JD,Stinson LEdoi
10.1080/00325481.1980.11715507subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1980-08-01 00:00:00pages
63-4, 66issue
2eissn
0032-5481issn
1941-9260journal_volume
68pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Many controversies, only a few of which have been discussed here, are now raging in the field of resuscitation. Much is expected to change in the next five to ten years. The American Heart Association is now considering changes for its new advanced cardiac life support course, which should be ready this year. The cour...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1986.11699404
更新日期:1986-05-15 00:00:00
abstract::In this era of resource limitations, use of healthcare dollars should be directed to diagnostic and therapeutic programs that can be supported by scientifically valid information. Screening for colorectal cancer has to overcome two limitations before its routine use can be justified. First, the disease is largely a pr...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the major cardiovascular health issue in contemporary clinical practice. Treatment options for multivessel CAD include medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Here, the authors review the most recent data that compare ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3810/pgm.2005.12.1670
更新日期:2005-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Multiple lifesaving options are currently available for treatment of acute myocardial infarction as a medical emergency. Serial electrocardiography and continuous ST-segment monitoring, urgent echocardiography, rapid enzyme analysis, and cardiac catheterization may all assist in the accurate and early diagnosis of acu...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/00325481.1993.11945769
更新日期:1993-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In an era when air travel is commonplace, middle ear block is not unusual. Educating patients about the simple techniques they can perform at the first signs of a problem may save a business trip or vacation from becoming a trip to the emergency department and a train ride home. The most important preventive measure i...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the proportion and the long-term prognostic significance of heart failure (HF) in sarcoidosis patients. METHODS:Data extracted from a large Israeli healthcare provider's database were used to study sarcoidosis patients and matched non-sarcoidosis controls since 2000 to 2016. The proportion of HF ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.2020.1832773
更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Looking back at the long history of cancer, we can still relate to that POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE editorial written 50 years ago: "None of the basic problems of cancer has been solved. The death rate is constantly mounting. Small wonder that many doctors face cancer with a pessimism bordering on resignation." The temptati...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.3810/pgm.1997.09.307
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cause, depth, and location of a laceration are major determining factors in its treatment. In all cases, the wound must be completely cleansed with irrigation under pressure and then examined radiographically if necessary and debrided. Successful repair depends on understanding and using the principles of wound he...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1988.11700310
更新日期:1988-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Community-acquired pneumonia is still a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and is often misdiagnosed and inappropriately treated. Although it can be caused by a wide variety of micro-organisms, the pneumococcus, atypicals, such as Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/00325481.2015.1074030
更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Politicians may have written a temporary obituary for healthcare reform, but as anyone in medicine knows, reform is alive and (debatably) well. Mergers, acquisitions, and practice changes are happening all across the land, and many a physician is going from being a small-business owner to being an employee. Difficult ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-11-15 00:00:00
abstract::Self-assessment case studies illustrating prudent selection of antimicrobial agents in septic shock following urinary catheterization, bacteremia and skin lesions in an immunocompromised patient, and endocarditis in a patient with a prosthetic heart valve. ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1978.11714791
更新日期:1978-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Uremic polyneuropathy occurs in about half of patients undergoing dialysis and is characterized by axonal degeneration with secondary segmental demyelination. Hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis halts the progress of polyneuropathy but usually does not bring improvement. However, improvement invariably occurs with suc...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3810/pgm.1997.10.344
更新日期:1997-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Obesity is currently a worldwide epidemic, and will likely only increase in prevalence in the coming years. The incidence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) seems to be paralleling obesity. The MetS is strongly linked to insulin resistance, abdominal obesity, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia. Nonalcoholic fatty liver...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3810/pgm.2008.07.1800
更新日期:2008-07-31 00:00:00
abstract::Treatment of asymptomatic diverticulosis is geared to the prevention of constipation, with vigilance for possible signs of complications. A bulky stool decreases colonic intraluminal pressures, probably lessening pain and the chance of development of new diverticula. Increased stool weight may be achieved by the addit...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1976.11708409
更新日期:1976-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 65-year-old woman was hospitalized several times after having an acute anteroseptal transmural infarction. Her course was complicated by recurrent ventricular tachycardia and severe left ventricular failure. Chest x-ray films showed pulmonary congestion and mild right pleural effusion. Two-dimensional echocardiograp...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1982.11716219
更新日期:1982-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common problem that is distressing for patients and costly for the healthcare system. UTIs commonly affect young, sexually active women; the elderly; and patients who have predisposing factors, such as catheterization. Recurrent infections are likely to occur in all these patients gr...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3810/pgm.12.2000.suppl11.57
更新日期:2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Chronic pain is considered one of the most prevalent causes of costly and disabling medical conditions. This review will define chronic pain and its categories and then will summarize the effectiveness and side effects associated with the use of various antidepressants, including the tricyclics, the selective serotoni...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/00325481.2016.1147925
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:There is a need to identify safe and effective opioid-sparing multimodal alternative treatment strategies and approaches, including topical analgesics, for opioid-experienced chronic pain patients to mitigate the risk of addiction, misuse, and abuse of opioids. METHODS:This subset analysis from a prospective...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.2018.1414551
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Preview Few people can say they have never experienced some form of pressure-related changes while flying. Although uncommon on commercial flights, severe middle ear blocks do occur. Drawing from his experience treating military pilots, Dr Brown discusses the causes of barotrauma, steps that airline passengers can tak...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1994.11945888
更新日期:1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Asthma is treated by avoiding the precipitants of symptoms, by a trial of hyposensitization (immunotherapy) if the precipitant cannot be avoided, and principally by pharmacologic therapy. Acute attacks have been most widely treated with epinephrine, but adrenergic aerosol bronchodilators and aminophylline are being us...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1976.11714330
更新日期:1976-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patients "lucky" enough to have a nondisabling transient ischemic attack as a warning sign of impending stroke deserve the best possible prophylactic treatment in an attempt to avert that catastrophe. Dr Edmeads provides a step-by-step discussion of diagnostic studies and therapeutic regimens that help avoid stroke in...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/00325481.1992.11701427
更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Severe gastroesophageal reflux disease is usually a chronic problem with periods of relapse, but effective medical and surgical therapies are available. Two recently introduced agents, omeprazole (Prilosec) and cisapride (Propulsid), represent advances in medical therapy; the safety of long-term, continuous omeprazole...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent sustained cardiac arrhythmia, yet because AF can often be intermittent or lacking in overt symptoms, its prevalence is underestimated, and it may be diagnosed only incidentally. Because AF is a potent ischemic stroke risk factor and stroke rates are similar for paroxysmal...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3810/pgm.2011.03.2260
更新日期:2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::By being aware of which patients are at high risk for ingestion or insertion of foreign bodies, physicians can be on the lookout for objects in the gastrointestinal tract and ready to institute initial care. Esophageal foreign bodies and other objects that increase the chance of perforation or obstruction may require ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1992.11701481
更新日期:1992-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder treated with atomoxetine were examined for time-to-onset and -resolution of common treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) and male sexual dysfunction, and for changes in blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) upon atomoxetine discontinuation. METHODS:...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1080/00325481.2015.1083394
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Arthritis complicating the common viral infections--mumps, coxsackievirus, and adenovirus--can be enigmatic. Mumps arthritis is often difficult to identify, especially when parotitis is mild, because the arthritic syndrome generally follows complete clearing of salivary adenitis by one to two weeks. Migratory polyarth...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1980.11715487
更新日期:1980-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sinusitis may present as an indolent infection, without the classic symptoms and signs commonly expected, and will probably be missed in children who have only cough and persistent rhinorrhea unless this diagnosis is kept in mind. Plain radiography is the most commonly used diagnostic procedure for sinusitis, but comp...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1990.11704634
更新日期:1990-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Effective management of blood-loss anemia depends on an understanding of the physiologic response to volume loss, the pattern of marrow response to acute depletion of red cell mass, and the controlling influence of iron supply. Each of these elements must be evaluated and incorporated into the plan of management. ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1978.11714948
更新日期:1978-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Preview Several dermatoses are potentially fatal, and the mortality rate for some is quite high; prompt recognition and treatment are essential. Dr Gannon's succinct discussions of pemphigus vulgaris, necrotizing fasciitis, toxic epidermal necrolysis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic shock syndrome, and urticaria and a...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00325481.1994.11945875
更新日期:1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Food and Drug Administration's approval of the excimer laser in 1995 heralded the age of laser refractive surgery in the United States. Since then, other advances in refractive surgery have spurred great public interest in and enthusiasm for these procedures. In this article, the authors review the major types of ...
journal_title:Postgraduate medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3810/pgm.1999.09.683
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00