The Cardiologists’ Worst Nightmare

A father's worst nightmare.

Dengue fever: Pakistan's worst nightmare.

a MD, St Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, MI 48154, United States of America b MD, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America c Medical Student, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore 45650, Pakistan Correspondence to Muhammad T Shakoor (e-mail: [email protected]) Dengue virus is presently amongst the most important arthropod-borne infections, from both the medical and p...

The situational judgement test: a student’s worst nightmare

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Mechanism and management of burr entrapment: A nightmare of interventional cardiologists

Entrapment of the burr within calcified lesion is an uncommon, but serious complication during rotational atherectomy and usually needs surgical retrieval. We report a case series of this complication and also review the possible mechanisms, such as kokesi phenomenon or insufficient pecking motion with decreased rotational speed. We also review the potential techniques ever proposed to rescue t...

Multiple mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: our worst nightmare?

Pseudomonas aeruginosa carries multiresistance plasmids less often than does Klebsiella pneumoniae, develops mutational resistance to cephalosporins less readily than Enterobacter species, and has less inherent resistance than Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. What nevertheless makes P. aeruginosa uniquely problematic is a combination of the following: the species' inherent resistance to many drug ...