Anticoagulation Guidelines 2012 link below

Chest 2012:
http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/141/2_suppl/e152S.full

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

End of life care and decision making

Interesting editorial in JAMA here:
jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/9/917.full

PFO and Cryptogenic Stroke

I read this with interest, having seen more and more PFOs closed in the absence of trial evidence, I am glad to see such an editorial hammer home the key point -- not without more study.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1201173

An interesting concept... The "nocebo" effect

jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/6/567.full

or for McGill people here.