Challenging the modern concept of pulmonary embolism

Very interesting editorial on the history (and future) of PE

https://webvpn.mcgill.ca/http/archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/archinternmed.2012.195

I have previously blogged about PE/DVT (see search function).

On the treatment of VRE

https://webvpn.mcgill.ca/http/cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/suppl_3/

A nice suppliment to CID on the "new hope" oritavancin.  This table shows US data on enterococcal resistance.

The world turns upside down..

Another dogma is challenged -- the use of epinephrine in cardiac arrest

jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/11/1198.full