Preventing enthusiasm in response to clinical advances

Recent advances in predicting the response to clinical rehabilitation.

Clinical Medicine Vol 3 No 2 March/April 2003 well-used strategy of ‘blocking’ and replied simply, ‘How’s your breathing been...?’ Several other examples of how not to manage difficult consultations enlivened the proceedings. Quite simple communication skills can be very effective in detecting psychiatric disease in physically ill patients. Simply asking a patient, ‘Are you depressed most of th...

Recent Advances in Preventing Adverse Reactions to Transfusion

The spectrum of adverse reactions to blood product transfusion ranges from a benign clinical course to serious morbidity and mortality.  There have been many advances in technologies and transfusion strategies to decrease the risk of adverse reactions. Our aim is to address a few of the advancements in increasing the safety of the blood supply, specifically pathogen reduction technologies, bact...

Recent advances in preventing stroke recurrence

Recent advances in secondary stroke prevention include new evidence in hypertension, nutrition, anticoagulation, antiplatelet therapy, intracranial stenosis, percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale, and lipid-lowering therapy. Individualized therapy for hypertension based on phenotyping with plasma renin and aldosterone markedly improves blood pressure control in patients with resistant hy...

Clinical ladders ramp up staff's enthusiasm and participation.

Enthusiasm: it's catching.