Week in review November 21-23

Myron Yaster MD

I’m one of those consultants who recommend hypoxia (sometimes)

David M. Polaner MD

Original article

Jain IH, Zazzeron L, Goli R, Alexa K, Schatzman-Bone S, Dhillon H, Goldberger O, Peng J, Shalem O, Sanjana NE, Zhang F, Goessling W, Zapol WM, Mootha VK. Hypoxia as a therapy for mitochondrial disease. Science 2016;352:54–61. PMID: 26917594

Patients with mitochondrial may diseases actually benefit from  hypoxia

Reader response

James Xie MD commenting on IV aprepitant PAAD and Rescue Rx for PONV.  George Gregory MD commenting on the dangers of using  bicarb during CPR.  Marie Zestos MD, Jeff Feldman MD, and Matt Careskey MD comment on how they rescue PONV patients

Happy Thanksgiving

All of us on the PAAD editorial council, John Fiadjoe MD, Nina Deutsch MD, Jim Fehr MD, Lindsey Loveland Baptist MD, Jim DiNardo MD, Susan Nicolson MD, Viviane Nasr MD, Lynne G. Maxwell MD, Jay Deshpande MD, Justin Lockman MD MSEd, Rita Agarwal MD, Melissa Brooks-Peterson MD, Norah Janosy MD, Rebecca Margolis DO, Jorge Galvez MD, Michael E. Nemergut MD PhD, Stephen J. Gleich MD, and Debnath Chatterjee wish you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving!