QOTD: Survivors

“Survivors were defined as patients who did not die during hospitalization.”

Bickell WH, Wall MJ Jr, Pepe PE, Martin RR, Ginger VF, Allen MK, Mattox KL. Immediate versus delayed fluid resuscitation for hypotensive patients with penetrating torso injuries. N Engl J Med. 1994 Oct 27;331(17):1105-9.

Glossary Entry

guarding hands - noun

     abdominal tenderness manifested by the patient pushing away the examiner's hand

The patient with guarding hands had a perfed appy.

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QOTD: Satisfactory Scrutiny

Resolution of a case report:

“...at present he is under the scrutiny of the oncology clinic, and his physical and mental state is satisfactory.”


Piotrowski AJ, Fendler WM. Hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest following succinylcholine administration in a 16-year-old boy with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia and sepsis. Ped Crit Care Med. 2007 Mar;8(2):183-5.