A 67-year-old man with lung cancer comes to the clinic for w…

A 67-year-old man with lung cancer comes to the clinic for worsening shortness of breath for the past week. He is not coughing and does not have a fever. Vital signs show that he is afebrile, blood pressure is 130/78, heart rate is 80, and respiratory rate is 22. On physical exam, he has dullness to percussion and decreased tactile fremitus over the right lower lobe. What would one expect to hear on auscultation in the right lower lobe?

A physician is practicing critical care medicine. Her divisi…

A physician is practicing critical care medicine. Her division chief has created a quality metric dashboard to track individual and team performance around several known metrics and those related to on-going quality improvement projects. Which of the following is the best description for the percent of patients with bacteremia secondary to having a central line in place?

A 58-year-old male current smoker presents with hemoptysis a…

A 58-year-old male current smoker presents with hemoptysis and weight loss. The physician is worried that he may have lung cancer or an infection, so she orders this chest x-ray. No nodules, masses, airspace disease, or effusions are seen. What is the next best step in this patient’s management?