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Be sure to screen all women between the ages of 14 and 46 for intimate partner violence (IPV), advises new research.
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Add new information to your contraceptive counseling databank: Findings from a just-published study indicate the absolute risk of increased thrombotic stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) associated with the use of hormonal contraception is low, although the relative risks vary depending on whether higher doses of estrogen are used.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (US MEC) to affirm the use of hormonal contraceptives in women at risk for or living with HIV.
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While human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection no longer carries the death sentence it once did, it still carries an enormous cost both in terms of financial burden for treatment as well as the social and medical issues associated with long-term disease.
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I see many patients brought by EMS from motor vehicle collisions and ground level falls. The majority arrive with a rigid cervical collar placed by the EMTs or paramedics because of neck pain or a concern about possible cervical spine injury based on the mechanism of injury. If the patient did not have initial pain, most will have developed pain by the time of arrival because of their placement in a rigid cervical collar and on a hard backboard.
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Almost every emergency physician I know has missed a case of hypoglycemia in their career. I have. I have also been practicing long enough to have used "Dextrostix." Remember using them? Remember some of the values you obtained?
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