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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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Non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas are more likely to be associated with peripheral nerve disorders, and Hodgkin's disease with central nervous system syndromes.
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Neurosurgical interventions for trigeminal neuralgia have never been rigorously studied for efficacy and carry significant risks.
