In most cases, your blog readers will tell what they need if you just listen to them. For example:
Anonymous said (partially edited for grammar):
“It’s wonderful the effort you make in making doctors to be up-to-date with the technology, the suggestion I have for you though is, since a good number of your readers could be either residents or medical students like me, please could you also post some clinical scenarios that are dedicated towards solving clinical problems on a weekly basis, this is just my suggestion. Thank you”
My response was:
“Great idea. Will implement it — “Case of the Week” should be available as a regular feature next month. Thank you for the suggestion.”
The first case in the Case of the Week series is linked below:
Atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular
A young female with DM type 1 was admitted to the hospital with an infected right diabetic foot ulcer. She needed IV access and failed several peripheral line attempts. A right internal jugular central line was and she immediately complained of shortness of breath and palpitations.
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Triple lumen catheter (TLC) at the right atrio-ventricular (AV) junction on CXR.
See what happened next in Atrial fibrillation (AFib) with rapid ventricular response (RVR) due to central line placement from Clinical Cases and Images.
Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.)
