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Low back pain (LBP) is a common (more than 3 million ED visits per year in the United States) yet typically benign ED complaint.
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A 15-year-old girl's mother demands that you give her daughter a pregnancy test, but the child refuses. What do you do?
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Consider this scenario: During a malpractice trial involving a patient's adverse outcome in your ED, the jury learns that you've been in the habit of accepting expensive dinners and vacations from drug companies.
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Patients with diabetes mellitus make up a substantial proportion of those undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and they are at higher risk for post-procedural complications.
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The atrial fibrillation and congestive heart Failure (AF-CHF) trial was designed to test the hypothesis that a treatment strategy that involved rhythm control would be superior to rate control in patients with heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
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It has long been believed, with considerable substantiation, that women have poorer results of percutaneous interventions (PCI) than men, with higher morbidity and mortality rates.
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Following successful reperfusion for acute myocardial infarction (MI) with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the persistence of impaired perfusion portends a poor prognosis.
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The endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan has been shown to improve exercise tolerance, hemodynamics, and clinical deterioration in trials of patients with advanced symptoms due to pulmonary hypertension (WHO functional class III and IV).
