Emergency physicians (EP) can expect to be named in any malpractice lawsuit involving care provided by a physician assistant (PA), but the question then becomes “Will the EP get dropped from the case?”
How the use of cardiac biomarkers has changed.
Syncope is the sudden loss of consciousness and postural tone with spontaneous recovery precipitated by cerebral dysfunction.
Generally, families of critical care patients are not actively involved in patient care in a consistent or meaningful way.
This large-scale clinical trial of exogenous surfactant administration in adult patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) used internationally accepted diagnostic criteria and the ARDS Net lung-protective ventilation protocol in all patients.
