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Endorsed by a multi-disciplinary panel of clinical experts, the Year 2004 ATBS Clinical Consensus Report primarily is directed toward physicians faced with the challenge of managing patients with acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in the primary care, emergency, and urgent care settings. The ultimate goal is to provide a concise, practical, and clinically relevant schemata for day-to-day patient management in which evidence can be put into practice to optimize clinical outcomes.
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The FDA has approved the first combination NSAID and proton pump inhibitor.
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Numerous published studies have strongly suggested that negative emotions such as depression and anxiety contribute to the development of symptomatic coronary artery heart disease.
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Gastric fundic gland polyps can be visually horrifying when seen on endoscopy, and they are now quite commonly present in patients taking chronic acid suppressive therapy with proton pump inhibitors.
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It has been estimated that as many as 50% of hospitalized congestive heart failure patients are malnourished.
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Recruiting 21 patients with hypertension from the cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction Unit of the University of Saskatchewan and 23 controls, Shin and colleagues tested the hypothesis that hot-water immersion would cause greater blood pressure changes in hypertensive patients than in normotensive controls.
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Children who present with a history of foreign body ingestion frequently offer both a diagnostic and management challenge to the emergency medicine physician. Esophageal foreign bodies can result in significant injury to or the death of a child. What follows is a review of the literature on the subject of esophageal foreign bodies in children.
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The daily practice of emergency medicine involves life and death decisions. While training in emergency medicine focuses on life-saving procedures and medications, dying patients often seek care in the ED for symptom relief, psychosocial support, or a variety of other reasons. Education, experience, communication, and compassion can improve the emergency physicians ability to deliver medical care near the end of life that will serve to relieve suffering, improve communication of the patients preferences and goals of medical treatment, and improve overall care of the patient and family.
