When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

A “cheat sheet” to track residents’ code status has become a source of controversy in the case of a Minnesota man who died without being given CPR, according to local news sources. The resident — ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hospitalized patients with advanced cancer is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Although advance care planning (ACP) in this population improves ...

When working at the emergency department, residents usually sign up for acuity levels 1-3, unless level 4 or 5 is a pediatric patient. I would choose any level for the kids. On that day, I chose a ...

As I was drowsily typing notes recently during an otherwise quiet afternoon in the medical intensive care unit, the resounding call on the overhead speaker snapped me awake: “CODE BLUE! Ground floor ...

HTTP is a simple communication protocol based on TCP/IP and is the absolute substratum for data delivery on the World Wide Web. For many years, HTTP is serving as a powerful protocol wherein ...

Google has published a new help document explaining how different HTTP status codes affect how a site appears in search results. A recent tweet suggests Google’s Gary Illyes had a hand in putting this ...