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Emergency departments are considered a high-risk area for medical errors leading to patient deaths. Patients treated in the ED, who subsequently die, may be victims of medical error.
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Acute gouty arthritis is the most common cause of joint inflammation in men over 40 years old. The disease is characterized by a crystal-induced inflammatory response in joints of middle age and elderly populations.
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Migraines are headache attacks which are generally characterized by unilateral severe headache, accompanied by nausea, photophobia, and sometimes aura. Several complex mechanisms are involved in migraines.
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In Scott Kinkade's article in the April 15th edition of American Family Physician, he presents a succinct review of the evaluation and treatment of acute lumbar pain.
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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage SAH is an acute neurological emergency which affects more than 20,000 patients in the United States each year. The 30-day mortality approaches 50%, and survivors are often left with profound neurological deficits.
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Brown and colleagues evaluated the most efficient means of microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients.
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Since shortly after the return of the first U.S. casualties wounded in Iraq in early 2003 to the United States, significant numbers of infections due to often multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter species have been observed in these patients shortly after arriving back in tertiary care military hospitals in the continental U.S. (CONUS).
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Over the last 15 years increased understanding of the complicated process of HIV attachment and entry into host cells has developed.
