Emergency Medicine Reports
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Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
MONOGRAPH: Early recognition and treatment has been shown to improve patient outcomes.
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Acute Ischemic Stroke: Focus on Reperfusion
Time is brain. Neural tissue’s exquisite sensitivity to ischemia indicates the emergency nature of acute stroke care. The faster that definitive stroke treatment is administered following the onset of ischemia, the better the outcomes.
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Emergency Department Observation Units
Hospitals and EDs are challenged with overcrowding, overutilization, escalating healthcare costs, and avoidable admissions. As a result, observation units have grown in numbers.
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Acute Hepatitis in the Emergency Department
MONOGRAPH: Viral and drug-induced hepatitis are the most common causes of acute liver failure in adults.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Update
COPD is a chronic, incurable but very treatable condition. This syndrome is identified by historical clues, clinical signs and symptoms, and physiologic and imaging abnormalities.
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Emergency Airway Management: A Targeted Review of Difficult Trauma Situations
Airway management is one of the cornerstones of emergency medicine practice and resuscitation. An emergency clinician must have a strategy for these situations based on clinical skills, available devices, urgency of the situation, and potential consultants.
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Commonly Missed Radiographic Findings
The practice of medicine involves judgment, the weighing of possibilities and probabilities. Even more so when interpreting radiographs.
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Diabetic Ketoacidosis
MONOGRAPH: It's characterized by markedly increased circulating ketone bodies leading to ketoacidosis.
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Hyponatremia in the Emergency Department
Sodium and water balance are closely linked, and abnormalities in one often occur in association with abnormalities in the other. Hyponatremia and disordered water balance are among the most common electrolyte disturbances seen in the emergency department (ED).
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Electronic Cigarette and Nicotine Toxicity
MONOGRAPH: The majority of electronic cigarette users are still smoking traditional cigarettes in addition to vaping.