Emergency medicine physicians routinely deal with cardiac emergencies in adult patients but rarely encounter infants with critical cardiac conditions. While the infant's cardiac physiology can be very different from an adult's, the general principles of preload, afterload, contractility, and vascular resistance are the same.
Patients who receive proton-pump inhibitors in the hospital are at increased risk for hospital-acquired pneumonia.
The combination of a CBC and a BMP can predict death.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is inextricably linked with adverse cardiovascular events including stroke, MI, hypertension (HTN), and arrhythmia.
A new opioid analgesic with a dual mechanism of action has been released for market by PriCara, a division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
