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The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in helping clinicians to better assess the size and extent of known breast cancers is well established. However, the use of MRI as a screening tool in women at high risk of breast cancer is now on the increase as well, particularly since April when the American Cancer Society (ACS) unveiled guidelines recommending the use of MRI as a screening tool in this subset of women.
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When a man with a severe liver injury from blunt abdominal trauma arrived at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's ED, he had no recordable blood pressure and a barely palpable carotid pulse.
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On the way to being rushed to a Level 1 trauma center after being hit by a car, a boy's airway suddenly filled with blood.
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If your next patient had altered mental status and lethargy, would you suspect an unintentional overdose of pain medication?
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One-third of the estimated 177,504 ED visits by elderly patients for adverse drug events were caused by warfarin, insulin, and digoxin in 2004 and 2005, says a new study.
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When children have procedural sedation in the ED, at least 42% have at least one adverse effect, according to a recent study of 547 children.
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White ED patients are more likely to receive narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine than patients of other races or ethnicities, says a new study.
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After an intoxicated and combative man broke loose from restraints, he struck two ED nurses and threw a computer at another nurse at a New York hospital in December 2007. Could this happen at your ED?
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The U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VA) National Center for Ethics in Health Care launched a major ethics integration initiative in 2007, including a new component that seeks to standardize and evaluate the quality of ethics consultations.
