Recently we asked for a diabetes opinion for one of our patients. My colleague duly arrived and asked if we’d continued a medication I had no idea that the patient was on, or even which of the new groups of diabetes meds it belonged to. So I told him “I think so, yes” and snuck out of vision to check.
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The ageing population is apparently one of the reasons the NHS is ‘under pressure’. This paper looks at the impact of the elderly on ICU demand in the Netherlands.
Two papers for your perusal this month, each looking at throwing all medicine has to offer at two diseases with potentially awful outcomes – cardiac arrest and ischaemic stroke.
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