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Patients with chronic pain can be some of the most difficult patients to deal with. They are often miserable and demanding, and their quest for pain relief can lead to addiction.
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The authors of this issue discuss three types of drug-resistant bacteria that can colonize or infect emergency department patients. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and, to a lesser extent, vancomycin-resistant enterococci are known to most emergency physicians.
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The agents available for use in pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) have expanded considerably over the last 20 years.
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A prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center trial demonstrates that a prolonged course of intravenous selenium improves mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock and is associated with minimal to no side effects.
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The incidence of invasive infections due to MRSA in 2005 was approximately 100 times greater in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population.
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Since the publication of the initial IDSA Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in 2003, hospital administrators have been scrambling to improve their numbers.
