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Because of the high cardiovascular risk associated with prehypertension, both lifestyle and pharmacological interventions should be vigorously utilized to prevent its progression to full-blown hypertension with its associated higher rates of both morbidity and mortality.
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Risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF) most prominently include age, hypertension, diabetes, valvular disease, and heart failure.
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Shortness of breath. Rashes. Facial swelling. Fatigue. Itching. Hypotension. Dizziness. Confusion. Any one of these symptoms, and dozens of others, could be caused by an adverse drug event (ADE).
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The three most common drugs involved in ED visits for adverse drug events are insulin, warfarin, and amoxicillin, says a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Increasing numbers of children are coming to EDs with injuries from soccer, says a just-published study. From 1990 through 2003, there were an estimated 1.6 million soccer-related injuries that resulted in ED visits, ranging from 96,179 in 1990, to 118,963 injuries in 2003.
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After an elderly man told ED nurses he felt dizzy and weak, he handed them two boxes a cereal box that held medications he took every day, and an oatmeal box containing drugs his doctor told him to stop taking.
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Are there any patients being held in your ED's hallway right now? How would you like for those patients to go directly to an inpatient hallway instead? That's exactly the policy that the ED at Stony Brook (NY) University Medical Center has in place.
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If you suspect a patient is having an acute myocardial infarction (MI), that patient will receive an electrocardiogram and be evaluated with cardiac markers. Yet, there are no definitive diagnostic tests to determine if your patient has sepsis, which has mortality near that of acute MI.
