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This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports is the first in a two-part series on imaging and evaluation of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). This part will review risk factors, history and physical examination, and computed tomography imaging. Part 2 will review magnetic resonance imaging, duplex ultrasound imaging, and treatment.
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Critical hypoxemia in acute respiratory failure may be defined as a degree of impairment in tissue oxygenation that in and of itself, and separately from the primary cause of the respiratory failure threatens the life of the patient.
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A recent examination of the Medicare database illustrates that survival rates after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remained unchanged from 1992 to 2005.
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In a prior study, investigators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center linked intraoperative contamination of patients' IV stopcocks with an increase in patient mortality.
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In this issue: Apixaban and rivaroxaban near approval for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation; fidaxomicin for C. difficile infections; guideline for intensive insulin therapy; and FDA Actions.
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Dosages based on the color-coded Broselow Pediatric Emergency tape will soon be displayed on a large LCD monitor for all ED staff to see, says Andre A. Muelenaer Jr., part of the product's developmental team and an associate professor of pediatrics at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke.
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Exertional heat-related injuries are on the rise in EDs, with an estimated 54,000 patients treated over a 10-year period a 133% increase that was not linked to increased seasonal temperatures, according to a new study.
