Banking risk and regulation: Does one size fit all?

Does one size fit all?

A1C: does one size fit all?

D iabetes specialists almost uniformly nod their heads when I ask whether they see patients whose A1C results don't match their blood glucose monitoring data. Providers used to attribute that to unreliability of the monitors or the patient records, but technological advances overcame those barriers. Some mis-matches can be attributed to inadequate temporal distribution of glucose sampling , and...

Professionalism: one size does not fit all.

When a child is born with or acquires special needs, the parents may find some parental tasks more difficult. They may not know how to make their tasks easier, or that some parents find it exceptionally rewarding and meaningful to raise their children with special needs. This piece explores how clinicians might share this potentially life-altering information. It also explores when and why clin...

One-size MAP does not fit all

One-size mean arterial pressure does not fit all The Surviving Sepsis Campaign [1] advocates maintaining a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of at least 65 mm Hg in sepsis patients undergoing resuscitation. Leone and colleagues [2], in an article published in this journal, suggest considering higher MAP targets in the resuscitation of patients with a history of arterial hypertension so they do not p...

Antibiotics and extracorporeal circulation – one size does not fit all

Dosing of antibiotics in critically ill patients is a significant challenge. The increasing number of patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation further complicates the issue due to inflammatory activation and to drug sequestration in the circuit. Since patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation commonly face severe infections, appropriate antibiotic selection and corre...