While stroke is most often a result of progressive atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, occurring with increasing frequency as the population ages, there are less common causes of stroke that mainly affect younger populations.
Many staff emergency physicians and resident physicians interact with pharmaceutical representatives on a regular basis. It seems a fairly harmless interaction, with the emergency physician then returning to the daily grind in their busy emergency department.
This article comprehensively reviews the differential diagnosis, testing, and therapy for an infant with jaundice.
Emergency physicians and pre-hospital personnel are trained to intervene rapidly in critical situations. In the absence of information to the contrary, a patient's desire to be resuscitated must be assumedespecially when withholding life-sustaining procedures may result in death.
