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• Medical advice prompts unneeded emergency visits by AF patients

  – Patients with atrial fibrillation who present to emergency departments, despite being asymptomatic, often go based on of their understanding of advice they had previously received from their physicians, according to results from a prospective study of 356 Canadian atrial arrhythmia patients ......(full story)

• Mild aerobic exercise speeds sports concussion recovery

  aerobic exercise significantly shortened recovery time from sports-related concussion in adolescent athletes, compared with a stretching program in a randomized trial of 103 participants.[[{\"fid\":\"239486\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"Feet on a treadmill\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"YanLev/ThinkStock\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\"},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"1\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"Feet on a treadmill\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"YanLev/ThinkStock\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\"}},\"attributes\":{\"alt\":\"Feet on a treadmill\",\"class\":\"media-element file-medstat-image-flush-right\",\"data-delta\":\"1\"}}]]Sports-related concussion (SRC) remains a major public health problem ......(full story)

• Expert: There’s no single treatment for fibromyalgia

  DIEGO – There are many potential treatments for fibromyalgia, but a large number of them – NSAIDs, opioids, cannabis and more – come with caveats and nothing beats an old stand-by: physical rehabilitation.With exercise, “we’re getting the muscles moving, and we’re getting ......(full story)

• Pulmonary hypertension linked to complications after head and neck procedures

  DIEGO – Patients with pulmonary hypertension who undergo head and neck surgery face an increased risk of several postoperative complications, compared with their counterparts who do not have the condition. They also face an increase in total charges and length of stay.[[{\"fid\":\"222461\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"A ......(full story)

• Consider timing and technique before hernia repair in patients with cirrhosis

  may be appropriate in compensated cirrhosis but only when accompanied by careful selection of patients, operative timing, and technique, according to a literature review of studies on hernia management in cirrhosis.[[{\"fid\":\"187783\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_full_text\",\"fields\":{\"alt\":\"Surgeons operating\",\"class\":\"media-element file-medstat-image-flush-left\",\"data-delta\":\"1\",\"format\":\"medstat_image_full_text\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"monkeybusinessimages/Thinkstock\"},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"1\":{\"alt\":\"Surgeons operating\",\"class\":\"media-element file-medstat-image-flush-left\",\"data-delta\":\"1\",\"format\":\"medstat_image_full_text\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"monkeybusinessimages/Thinkstock\"}},\"attributes\":{\"alt\":\"Surgeons operating\",\"class\":\"media-element file-medstat-image-full-text\",\"data-delta\":\"1\"}}]]“Hernia management in cirrhosis continues to ......(full story)

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CLICK for Credit articles are peer-reviewed by Lisa Joan Pfitzer, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Chair, University of Louisville Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee. Dr. Pfitzer has no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests. Whitney McKnight has no relevant financial relationship with any commercial interests.

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