Contraindication

“The one who knows when not to act is wise,” the playwright Euripides wrote over 2,400 years ago. Are you wise enough to know the situations in which you should not send a patient with a cataract for surgery?

There are drug-drug interactions between the COVID-19 treatment ritonavir/nirmatrelvir and various classes of commonly used CV medications, according to a review paper.

Few health care personnel in a large academic health system who requested a medical waiver for the influenza vaccine had a true medical contraindication, according to findings in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Older patients with atrial fibrillation were more likely to have high bleeding risk contraindications with oral anticoagulation and higher mortality compared with patients who were not treated with oral anticoagulation and did not have contraindications, according to a observational, longitudinal analysis published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.