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Whether a bite or sting results in an anaphylactic reaction, impressive
local effects, or a life-threatening systemic reaction, the emergency
physician must be able to institute appropriate and effective
treatment. Emergency physicians also must be able to recognize clinical
envenomation patterns, since some critically ill patients may not be
able to convey the details of the attack. Since all areas of the
country are represented in the envenomation statistics, all emergency
physicians should be familiar with identification and stabilization of
envenomated patients and know what resources are available locally for
further management of these often complicated patients.
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Computerized interpretation of the ECG seen here described the rhythm as atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular response with a number of aberrantly conducted beats. Do you agree with this computerized interpretation?
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Antipsychotic agents are a diverse class of drugs used to treat both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric conditions. This review will focus on the basic pharmacology, adverse effects, and toxicologic manifestations of the atypical antipsychotics.
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Can the bispectral index monitor quantify altered level of consciousness in emergency department patients?
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The objective of this study was to investigate the ability of the visual analog scale to differentiate between patients with acute painful conditions desiring pain medication and those not desiring medication.
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If you are dealing with a packed emergency department and waiting room, and wondering why all the changes in the function of your department have not produced better throughput, this article is a must-read for you.
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With modern air transportation, severe malaria easily is transported worldwide during its two-week incubation period and can present in any American emergency department. To better define the clinical spectrum of severe malaria, Bruneel and colleagues studied 188 adults admitted to a 1200-bed teaching hospital in Paris between 1988 and 1999.
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Warfarin Effectively Prevents Venous Thromboembolism; Vitamin D Reduces
Osteoporotic Fractures; Adefovir Effective for Hepatitis B Treatment;
Ibuprofen/Aspirin Study Revisited; ACE Inhibitors Favored in Cardiovascular Care; Digoxin Dosing and Heart Failure
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 55-year-old man with a history of heart failure and emphysema. What might his echocardiogram show?