Southern Medical Journal

SMJ : March 2018 Issue

March 6, 2018 // Randy Glick
March 2018 SMJ Cover

The Southern Medical Journal is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Medical Association. It has a multidisciplinary and inter-professional focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists, including medicine; surgery; women’s and children’s health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices.

Southern Medical Journal Vol. 111 • No. 3 • March 2018

Public Health and Environmental Medicine

Standardized Hypertension Management to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity and Mortality Worldwide
Pragna Patel, MD, MPH, Pedro Ordunez, MD, PhD, Kenneth Connell, MBBS, PhD, Dan Lackland, DrPH, Donald DiPette, MD, and for the Standardized Hypertension Treatment and Prevention Network

Medicine & Medical Specialties

Prevalence of HCV Infection in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease and Treatment with Direct Antiviral Agents 
Ajay Reddy Gade, MBBS, Manisha Patel, MD, Donna R. West, MSN, and Gary A. Abrams, MD

Commentary on “Prevalence of HCV Infection in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease and Treatment with Direct Antiviral Agents”
Duraisamy Balaguru, MD

Diverticular Disease: The Old, the New, and the Ever-Changing View
Michael S. DiSiena, MD, and John W. Birk, MD

Endobronchial Lesions in Patients Presenting with Hemoptysis
Amik Sodhi, MD, Dipen Kadaria, MD, April Practice McDonald, MD, Adnan Khan, MD, Krishna Gannamraj, MD, and Muthiah Muthiah, MD

Bioethics & Medical Education

Awareness and Knowledge Among Internal Medicine Resident Trainees for Dose Adjustment of Analgesics and Neuropsychotropic Medications in CKD
Chadi Y. Saad, MD, Joshua Fogel, PhD, and Sofia Rubinstein, MD

Commentary on “Awareness and Knowledge Among Internal Medicine Resident Trainees for Dose Adjustment of Analgesics and Neuropsychotropic Medications in CKD”
Gunjan Garg, MD, and Julie Wright Nunes, MD, MPH

Video Decision Aids in End-of-Life Care: Is There a Role with Older Adult Patients?
Rajesh Nair, BSc, MD

Patient Quality and Safety

The Inaccuracy of Accuracy
Anthony C. Breu, MD

Women’s & Children’s Health

Delayed Emergence in Pediatric Patients with Neurologic Disease Presenting for Ambulatory Surgery
Khaled Dajani, MD, Mohammed Almualim, MD, Akshay Menon, MD, Jacqueline Volpi-Abadie, MD, and Kierstin Lund, MD

Risk-Reducing Salpingectomy Versus Standard Tubal Sterilization: Lessons From Offering Women Options for Interval Sterilization
Matthew L. Zerden, MD, MPH, Tara Castellano, MD, Kemi M. Doll, MD, MS, Gretchen S. Stuart, MD, MPHTM, M. Cris Munoz, MD, and Kim A. Boggess, MD

Association of the Length of the Third Stage of Labor and Blood Loss Following Vaginal Delivery
Nader Z. Rabie, MD, Songthip Ounpraseuth, PhD, Dawn Hughes, MD, Patrick Lang, MD, Micah Wiegel, MD, and Everett F. Magann, MD

Women’s Health Curriculum for Medical Students
Maryam Sattari, MD, MS, Erinn Cooke, MD, Elizabeth Vorhis, MD, Julia Marshall, MD, and Karen Daily, DO

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